Dry mergers in GEMS: The dynamical evolution of massive early-type galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 640, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 241-251

  Bell, Eric F ^a   Naab, Thorsten ^b   McIntosh, Daniel H ^c   Somerville, Rachel S ^d   Caldwell, John A R ^e   Barden, Marco ^a   Wolf, Christian ^f   Rix, Hans Walter ^a   Beckwith, Steven V ^d,g   Borch, Andrea ^h   Häussler, Boris ^a   Heymans, Catherine ^a,i   Jahnke, Knud ^j   Jogee, Shardha ^k   Koposov, Sergey ^a   Meisenheimer, Klaus ^a   Peng, Chien Y ^d   Sanchez, Sebastian F ^l   Wisotzki, Lutz ⁱ  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^l CENTRO ASTRONÓMICO HISPANO ALEMÁN   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645523462     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499931     Document Type: Article

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