Surface BR Photometry of Newly Discovered Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Nearby Sculptor and Centaurus A Groups

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2000

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Jerjen, Helmut
Binggeli, Bruno
Freeman, Kenneth

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University of Chicago Press

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Prompted by the recent finding of a large number of gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxies in the nearby southern galaxy groups Sculptor (Scl) and Centaurus A (Cen A) we carried out a complementary survey to search for members of the gas-poor dwarf elliptical

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Keywords: Galaxies : dwarf; Galaxies: clusters: individual (Centaurus A, Sculptor); Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function

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Astronomical Journal

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