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Spectrophotometry of Shell Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

W.D. Pence
W.D. Pence*
Affiliation:
The Space Telescope Science Institute, Homewood Campus, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract

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Low dispersion spectra of two shell galaxies, NGC 3923 and NGC 3051, have been obtained covering the 5300Å to 10000Å spectral range. These long-slit spectra go through the nucleus of each galaxy and also through 12 shells in NGC 3923 and through 3 shells in NGC 3051. the main results are:

1) In NGC 3051 the surface brightness of the 2 inner shells is nearly constant with radius. These plateaus of luminosity have very abrupt outer cutoffs but have no detectable inner limits.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 463 - 464
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Copyright © Reidel 1987