The Hubble sequence: Just a vestige of merger events?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1313-1326

  Hammer, F ^a   Flores, H ^a   Puech, M ^a   Yang, Y B ^a,b   Athanassoula, E ^c   Rodrigues, M ^a   Delgado, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: spiral

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS KINEMATICS; FIRST-PASSAGE; GALAXIES: FORMATION; GAS CONTENT; GAS FRACTION; HELICOIDAL STRUCTURE; MODEL PREDICTION; PECULIAR MORPHOLOGY; STARBURSTS; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES; YOUNG STARS;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); GALAXIES; GASES; KINEMATICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MERGING; MORPHOLOGY; STARS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 70849100271     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912115     Document Type: Article

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