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On the Verge of Coalescence: a Dusty Group of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S. Temporin
Affiliation:
Institut für Astrophysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
R. Weinberger
Affiliation:
Institut für Astrophysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
F. Kerber
Affiliation:
Space Telescope – European Coordinating Facility, ESO, D-85748 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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We have found a new, very compact group of galaxies characterized by a median projected separation between galaxies of 5.2/h kpc and a very low velocity dispersion. All the observed member galaxies show emission line spectra and a disturbed morphology. From these properties it emerges that this compact group is in an extremely advanced stage of evolution.

Type
Part 2. Properties of Small Groups
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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