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Implications for the origin of early-type dwarf galaxies – the discovery of rotation in isolated, low-mass early-type galaxies

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We present the discovery of rotation in quenched, low-mass early-type galaxies that are isolated. This finding challenges the claim that (all) rotating dwarf early-type galaxies in clusters were once spiral galaxies that have since been harassed and transformed into earlytype galaxies. Our search of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data within the Local Volume (z < 0.02) has yielded a sample of 46 galaxies with a stellar mass M*≲ 5 × 109M⊙(median M*~ 9.29 × 108M⊙), a low Hα equivalent width EW...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1093/mnras/stx634

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
Oxford college:
Christ Church
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-7897-3812
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Journal:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society More from this journal
Volume:
468
Issue:
3
Pages:
2850-2864
Publication date:
2017-03-15
Acceptance date:
2017-03-10
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EISSN:
1365-2966
ISSN:
0035-8711
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pubs:722714
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uuid:4f2b8b09-5bdd-4188-8cf0-6d1695e00aef
Local pid:
pubs:722714
Source identifiers:
722714
Deposit date:
2018-06-25

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