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On the Verge of Coalescence: a Dusty Group of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S. Temporin ,
R. Weinberger  and
F. Kerber
S. Temporin
Affiliation:
Institut für Astrophysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
R. Weinberger
Affiliation:
Institut für Astrophysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
F. Kerber
Affiliation:
Space Telescope – European Coordinating Facility, ESO, D-85748 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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We have found a new, very compact group of galaxies characterized by a median projected separation between galaxies of 5.2/h kpc and a very low velocity dispersion. All the observed member galaxies show emission line spectra and a disturbed morphology. From these properties it emerges that this compact group is in an extremely advanced stage of evolution.

Type
Part 2. Properties of Small Groups
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 174: Small Galaxy Groups , 2000 , pp. 107 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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