Observational evidence for the evolution of cD galaxies

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992an....313..275b&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten (ISSN 0004-6337), vol. 313, no. 5, p. 275-282.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galactic Clusters, Galactic Evolution, Interacting Galaxies, Galactic Mass, Luminosity

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We consider current problems connected with the formation of cD galaxies. The subject of this paper is to compare internal properties of cD galaxies such as radial color distribution, envelope luminosity, and peculiar velocity with mass segregation effects in their parent clusters. This consideration is a forthcoming attempt to find commonly valid essential correlations between peculiarities of brightest cluster members and global cluster properties. We find tight correlations between the discussed properties and conclude that merger processes seem to play an important role in the formation process of cD galaxies.

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