Soft merging in early-type galaxies.

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997ncimb.112..243c&link_type=abstract

Nuovo Cimento B, Vol. 112B, No. 2 - 3, p. 243 - 269

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Galaxy Mergers: Early-Type Galaxies, Galaxy Mergers: Structure, Galaxy Mergers: Photometry

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Statistical, photometric, and kinematical arguments suggest that encounters, accretion, and merging of galaxies are likely the key mechanisms for the formation of present-day ellipticals. While major merger events leave strong and clearly measurable signatures, those left by minor (or "soft") ones are usually rather tricky to observe. The authors present a new image-filtering technique capable to detect weak photometric signatures (down to 5% of the local value of the surface brightness) of structures which may be interpreted as signatures of past accretion phenomena. By applying this technique to a sample of 28 early-type galaxies observed with the ESO-NTT telescope, the authors have revealed faint structures such as nuclear disks, ripples, bars, distorted disks, warps, etc., in more than 90% of the galaxies. The revealed structures are also capable to explain some anomalies in the photometric properties which were known to exist by means of more traditional techniques.

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