How special are brightest cluster galaxies? The impact of near-infrared luminosities on scaling relations for BCGs

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 663, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages

  Batcheldor, Dan ^a   Marconi, Alessandro ^b   Merritt, David ^a   Axon, David J ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547198330     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520338     Document Type: Article

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