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Intrinsic Shape of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 661

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

D.K. Chakraborty
Affiliation:
School of Studies in Physics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 492 010, India
Mousumi Das
Affiliation:
School of Studies in Physics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 492 010, India
Parijat Thakur
Affiliation:
School of Studies in Physics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 492 010, India

Abstract

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We investigated the intrinsic shape of the luminosity density of the triaxial galaxy NGC 661 by comparing its observed profiles of photometric parameters with the projected surface brightness of model galaxies. We examined NGC 661 which shows a small scale variation in the ellipticity profile at ∼ 0.3 re. We suggest complex form of density distributions which might explain it.

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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