Title: Structure and Metallicity of Low-Luminosity Early-Type Galaxies
Abstract: We collected photometric and spectroscopic data for a sample of early-type galaxies (M B < −19 , H0 = 100) distributed over the region between giant, compact and dwarf elliptical galaxies in a mean surface brightness vs. luminosity diagram. They appear to join the sequences of giants and dwarfs in the central surface brightness vs. luminosity diagram. We also give evidence for a segregation of the metallicity with surface brightness at a given luminosity: a lower surface brightness is associated with a weaker metallicity.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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