Stellar and dust properties of local elliptical galaxies: Clues to the onset of nuclear activity

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 177-183

  Zhang, Y ^a   Gu, Q S ^a   Ho, L C ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; DUST; LUMINANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN); DUST PROPERTIES; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; ELLIPTICALS; HIGH-RESOLUTION (HR) IMAGES; HOST GALAXIES; HOT GASSES; METALLICITIES; NEAR-INFRARED LUMINOSITY; NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS; STELLAR POPULATIONS; STELLAR VELOCITY; SURFACE BRIGHTNESSES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 48249120803     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809660     Document Type: Article

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