Dwarfs gobbling dwarfs: A stellar tidal stream around NGC4449 and hierarchical galaxy formation on small scales

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 748, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Martínez Delgado, David ^a   Romanowsky, Aaron J ^b   Jay Gabany, R ^c   Annibali, Francesca ^d   Arnold, Jacob A ^b   Fliri, Jürgen ^e   Zibetti, Stefano ^f   Van Der Marel, Roeland P ^g   Rix, Hans Walter ^a   Chonis, Taylor S ^h   Carballo Bello, Julio A ⁱ   Aloisi, Alessandra ^g   MacCiò, Andrea V ^a   Gallego Laborda, J ^j   Brodie, Jean P ^b   Merrifield, Michael R ^k  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c Blackbird Observatory   (United States)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g STScI   (United States)

^h University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^j Fosca Nit Observatory   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: interactions; galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858714670     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/748/2/L24     Document Type: Article

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