Kinematics of diffuse elliptical galaxies
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
New observations show that most of the flattened diffuse elliptical (dE) galaxies are essentially isotropic rotators. This supports the idea that dEs have evolved from fast rotating dIrr systems or late-type spirals after their gas was expelled by SN-driven winds and stripped by ram pressure against the intergalactic medium.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210056,
title = {Kinematics of diffuse elliptical galaxies},
author = {Philippe Prugniel and Francois Simien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210056},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To be published in "The Evolution of Galaxies. III. From Simple Approaches to Self-Consistent Models", G. Hensler, Edt