The ACS Fornax Cluster survey. IV. Deprojection of the surface brightness profiles of early-type galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters: Investigating the "core/power-law dichotomy"

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 726, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Glass, Lisa ^a,b   Ferrarese, Laura ^b   Côté, Patrick ^b   Jordán, Andrés ^c,d   Peng, Eric ^e   Blakeslee, John P ^b   Chen, Chin Wei ^b,f   Infante, Leopoldo ^c   Mei, Simona ^g,h   Tonry, John L ⁱ   West, Michael J ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^h OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

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Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo, Fornax); Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891247109     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/726/1/31     Document Type: Article

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