Properties of early-type, dry galaxy mergers and the origin of massive elliptical galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Naab, Thorsten ^a   Khochfar, Sadegh ^b   Burkert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044460588     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500205     Document Type: Article

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