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Published November 1986 | Published
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Color gradients in three Virgo ellipticals

Abstract

Accurate surface photometry at optical wavelengths is presented for NGC 4486, NGC 4472, and NGC 4406. Ellipses of varying ellipticity and position angle as a function of semimajor axis (A) are fit over the range in A spanned by the data, 2 ≤ A ≤ ≈400 arcsec. Color gradients in these galaxies are definitely present but are quite small. For each galaxy, the parameters describing the fit ellipses in the four colors are identical.

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© American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 29 April 1986; revised 1 August 1986.

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