The environmental dependence of the stellar mass fundamental plane of early-type galaxies

2016/02/17 by Lei Hou, Yu Wang
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Halo #Luminosity #Satellite #Satellite galaxy #Sky #Space Technology and Applications #Stellar mass #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.GA

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527807

published as A&A 588, A39 (2016) · 11 pages, 5 figures

openalex publication_date 2016/02/17 · arxiv created 2016/02/25 · arxiv updated 2016/03/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Aims. We investigate the environmental dependence of the stellar mass fundamental plane (FP∗) using the early-type galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 (SDSS DR7).

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