The structure of the isophotes of elliptical galaxies
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This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The article was published on 1978-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 105 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lenticular galaxy & Brightest cluster galaxy.read more
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Structure and formation of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies
TL;DR: In this paper, surface photometry of all known elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster is combined with published data to derive composite profiles of brightness, ellipticity, position angle, isophote shape, and color over large radius ranges.
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Kinemetry: a generalization of photometry to the higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution
TL;DR: In this article, a generalization of surface photometry to the higher-order moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies observed with integral-field spectrographs is presented.
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The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the ATLAS3D data set of 260 early-type galaxies to study the apparent kinematic misalignment angle, defined as the angle between the photometric and kinematics major axes.
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Efficient multi-Gaussian expansion of galaxies
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple, efficient, robust and fully automatic algorithm for the determination of a Multi-Gaussian Expansion (MGE) fit to galaxy images, to be used as a parametrization for the galaxy stellar surface brightness, is presented.
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Structure and Kinematics of Early-Type Galaxies from Integral Field Spectroscopy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that there is a dichotomy in the dynamics of the two classes of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and showed that the two main classes, the fast and slow rotators, can be separated using stellar kinematics.
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