Tracing the vertical composition of disc galaxies through colour gradients
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Tracing the vertical composition of disc galaxies through colour gradients
Optical observations of a statistically complete sample of edge-on disc-dominated galaxies are used to study the intrinsic vertical colour gradients in the galactic discs, in order to constrain the effects of population gradients, residual dust extinction and gradients in the galaxies’ metal abundance. For the majority of our sample galaxies, the colours and colour gradients in the range 1.0hz ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03284.x