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Outer disks of lenticular galaxies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

By studying the stellar population properties along the radius in 15 nearby S0 galaxies, I have found that the outer stellar disks are mostly old, with the SSP-equivalent ages of 8-15 Gyr, being often older than the bulges. This fact puts into doubt a currently accepted paradigm that S0 galaxies have formed at z=0.4 by quenching star formation in spiral galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.1112.3771,
  title  = {Outer disks of lenticular galaxies},
  author = {Olga K. Sil'chenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.3771},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Proceedings of the IAU Symp. 284 "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies", Preston (UK), September 2011, eds. R. J. Tuffs and C. C. Popescu