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NGC 488: Has its massive bulge been build up by minor mergers?

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Using recent observations of the kinematics of the disk stars the dynamical state of the disk of NGC 488 is discussed. The disk is shown to be dynamically `cool', so that NGC 488 cannot have experienced many -- even minor -- mergers in the past.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9708029,
  title  = {NGC 488: Has its massive bulge been build up by minor mergers?},
  author = {Burkhard Fuchs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9708029},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex, 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in A&A