Abstract
- [*] Keck Spectroscopy of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the
Virgo Cluster
- Geha M., Guhathakurta P., van der Marel R.P.
- in `The Shapes of Galaxies and their Halos',
Natarajan P., ed., World Scientific, in press, 2001
- © 2001. World Scientific. All Rights Reserved.
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Keck spectroscopy is presented for four dwarf elliptical galaxies in
the Virgo Cluster. At this distance, the mean velocity and velocity
dispersion are well resolved as a function of radius between 100 to
1000 pc, allowing a clear separation between nuclear and surrounding
galaxy light. We find a variety of dispersion profiles for the inner
regions of these objects, and show that none of these galaxies is
rotationally flattened.
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