Young, metal-enriched cores in early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster based on colour gradients

Urich, L.; Lisker, Thorsten; Janz, Joachim; van de Ven, Glenn; Leaman, Ryan; Boselli, Alessandro; Paudel, Sanjaya; Sybilska, Agnieszka; Peletier, Reynier F.; den Brok, Mark; Hensler, Gerhard; Toloba, Elisa; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Niemi, Sami-Matias
Bibliographical reference

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 606, id.A135, 12 pp.

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2017
Number of authors
14
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
23
Refereed citations
22
Description
Early-type dwarf galaxies are not simply featureless, old objects, but were found to be much more diverse, hosting substructures and a variety of stellar population properties. To explore the stellar content of faint early-type galaxies, and to investigate in particular those with recent central star formation, we study colours and colour gradients within one effective radius in optical (g - r) and near-infrared (i - H) bands for 120 Virgo cluster early-type galaxies with - 19 mag
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