Kinematics and line strength indices in the halos of the Coma brightest cluster galaxies NGC 4874 and NGC 4889

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2010

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Coccato, L
Arnaboldi, Magda
Gerhard, Ortwin
Freeman, Kenneth
Ventimiglia, G
Yasuda, Naoki

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Springer

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Aims. We investigate the stellar kinematics and line strength indices in the outer halos of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the Coma cluster to obtain the outer halo Vrot and σ profiles and to derive constraints on the formation history of these obj

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Keywords: Galaxies: clusters: General; Galaxies: clusters: individual: Coma cluster; Galaxies: individual: NGC 4874; Galaxies: individual: NGC 4889; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Kinematics; Galaxies Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: clusters: individual: Coma cluster; Galaxies: individual: NGC 4874; Galaxies: individual: NGC 4889; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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