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Two Colour CCD Photometry of Malin–Carter Shell Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
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Shells may be the result of the disruption of a small companion in the potential of a much larger galaxy (e.g., Hernquist & Quinn, 1986; Dupraz & Combes, 1985), the disturbance of a disk system in a tidal encounter (Toomre, 1972), an accumulation of resonant stellar orbits (Binney, pers.comm.) or the result of some shock phenomenon in a hot galactic atmosphere (e.g., Williams & Christiansen, 1985; Wilkinson & Bailey, 1985;). To distinguish between these formation mechanisms, CCD direct images in B and R have been obtained at the Anglo-Australian 3.8m telescope for 66 of the 74 galaxies in the range 01h 40′ α < 13h 46' in the Malin-Carter (1983) catalogue of shell galaxies.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 465 - 466
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