The dwarf galaxy population in Abell 2218

Pracy, Michael; De Propris, Roberto; Driver, Simon; Couch, Warrick; Nulsen, Paul E J

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The dwarf galaxy population in Abell 2218

Date

2004

Authors

Pracy, Michael

De Propris, Roberto

Driver, Simon

Couch, Warrick

Nulsen, Paul E J

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We present results from a deep photometric study of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2218 (z = 0.18) based on archival Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 F606W images. These have been used to derive the luminosity function to extremely faint limits (MF606W ≈ -13