The luminosities, sizes, and velocity dispersions of brightest cluster galaxies: Implications for formation history

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1741-1755

  Bernardi, Mariangela ^a   Hyde, Joseph B ^a   Sheth, Ravi K ^a   Miller, Chris J ^b   Nichol, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cD; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247492128     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511783     Document Type: Article

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