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Morphological Properties of Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

S. Djorgovski
S. Djorgovski*
Affiliation:
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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In the poster as presented at the meeting, I described global morphological properties of elliptical galaxies, based on the data from a CCD surface photometry survey of ~ 200 ellipticals and ~ 50 SO's (Djorgovski 1985). In this brief summary, I emphasize two points: (1) there is a very weak and very noisy trend of radial shape with luminosity, in the sense that more luminous galaxies are less concentrated, and (2) there is no preference for low-luminosity ellipticals to show boxy isophotes, and they differ in that respect from the bulges.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 377 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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