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Title

Spatial kinematics of brightest cluster galaxies and their close companions from Integral Field Unit spectroscopy

Author(s)

Brough, S.;  Tran, K. V.;  Sharp, R. G.;  von der Linden, A.;  Couch, Warrick J.

Abstract

We present Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopy of four brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at z~0.1. Three of the BCGs have close companions within a projected radius of 20 kpc and one has no companion within that radius. We calculate the dynamical masses of the BCGs and their companions to be 1.4x10^11

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, Vol. 414, no. 1 (Jun 2011), pp. L80-L84

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences

Keyword(s)

Dynamics;  Elliptical galaxies;  Galaxy clusters;  Galaxy evolution;  Kinematics;  Lenticular galaxies

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

ISSN

0035-8711

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01060.x

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 The Authors. Journal compilation copyright © 2011 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.

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