The nature of UCDs: Internal dynamics from an expanded sample and homogeneous database

2008/06/04 by Steffen Mieske, S. Mieske, Michael Hilker +21
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Dynamics (music) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Homogeneous #Large sample #Sample (material) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200810077

17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. V3 taking into account proof corrections: Table 3 radial velocity entries corrected by heliocentric correction, updated sigma entries in Table 5 for a few CenA sources, updated references for G1 and omega Cen

openalex publication_date 2008/06/04 · arxiv created 2008/07/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context. The internal dynamics of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) has attracted increasing attention, with most of the UCDs studied to date located in the Virgo cluster.

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