A population of compact elliptical galaxies detected with the virtual observatory

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5958, 2009, Pages 1379-1382

  Chilingarian, Igor ^a,b,c   Cayatte, Véronique ^d   Revaz, Yves ^e   Dodonov, Serguei ^f   Durand, Daniel ^g   Durret, Florence ^h,i   Micol, Alberto ^j   Slezak, Eric ^k  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^h INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^j EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DATA MINING; ELLIPSE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATORY; SPECTROMETRY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA BASE; ELLIPTICAL GALAXY; FOLLOW UP; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY;

EID: 71549126226     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175930     Document Type: Article

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