The centers of early-type galaxies with hubble space telescope. VI. Bimodal central surface brightness profiles

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 664, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 226-256

  Lauer, Tod R ^a   Gebhardt, Karl ^b   Faber, S M ^c   Richstone, Douglas ^d   Tremaine, Scott ^e   Kormendy, John ^b   Aller, M C ^d   Bender, Ralf ^f   Dressler, Alan ^g   Filippenko, Alexei V ^h   Green, Richard ⁱ   Ho, Luis C ^g  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547661771     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519229     Document Type: Article

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