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Ionized Gas in Elliptical Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
Abstract
More than half of all nearby elliptical galaxies contain modest amounts (103 − 105 M⊙) of ionized gas. In bright elliptical galaxies this gas appears to lie in a rotating, kiloparsec-scale central disk, with a spectrum characteristic of non-thermal ionization. Low-luminosity ellipticals have a clumpy gas distribution and the gas in these galaxies is photoionized by young stars.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 125 - 133
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- Copyright © Reidel 1987
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