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Core and Tidal Radii of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy from UK Schmidt Telescope Plates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

P. J. Godwin*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, Scotland, U.K.

Abstract

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Core and tidal radii of the Carina dwarf galaxy are determined by fitting King dynamical models to number count radial profiles, derived from COSMOS data. These values are compared with those of the other six known Local Group dwarf spheroidals.

Type
May 29: Observations of Globular Clusters
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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