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Surface Photometry of Bright Ellipticals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

James M. Schombert
James M. Schombert*
Affiliation:
Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology

Abstract

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Surface brightness profiles of bright ellipticals (MV < −17, Ho = 100) in rich clusters and the field are reduced to structural parameters. Most fitting functions are found to be inadequate in describing the overall shape of profiles with only the r1/4 law providing a good match over the range of surface brightness from 19 to 24 mag arcsec−2. The systematic deviations in structure of first-ranked ellipticals from normal ellipticals (i.e. enlarged characteristic radii and shallow profile slopes) are well explained by comparison to the N-body simulations of merging systems from Duncan, Farouki, and Shapiro (1982).

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 383 - 384
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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