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Feb 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...235..755s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Vol.235, P. 755, 1980
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We investigate the stellar content of two SO galaxies whose spectra show deep Balmer absorption lines but little emission. Continuum colors and the Faber-Burstein (Mg)0 index show that the blue light is dominated by young stars. In VII Zw 421 there is a radial population gradient; the nucleus has relatively more young stars than the lens. An approximate spectral synthesis confirms the need for young (rather than metal-poor) stars to produce sufficiently strong Balmer lines. In VII Zw 421 the best synthesis implies that 45Th of the nuclear light at 5000 Å comes from stars close to A1 V in type. In the lens, the young-star contribution is smaller by a factor of 2-3. Also, in the nucleus only, the observed Na D lines are much stronger than in our model. This suggests a connection with the young component and supports Faber and Burstein's conclusion that abnormally strong Na D absorption is sometimes interstellar. Thus VII Zw 421 and II Zw 67 are similar to NGC 5102, the nearest SO galaxy dominated by young stars.
The present SO's provide important constraints on any interpretation of the young component. At - 19.9 and -21.5 absolute B mag (H0 = 50 km s-1 1 Mpc-1), they are unusually luminous for their early-type spectra. They are also unusually compact, which may provide them with gravitational potential wells deep enough to retain gas despite processes which remove gas from other early-type galaxies.
Kormendy John
Sparke Linda S.
Spinrad Hyron
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