Diffuse light in Hickson compact groups: the dynamically young system HCG 44
Context: .Compact groups are associations of a few galaxies in which the environment plays an important role in galaxy evolution. The low group velocity dispersion favors tidal interactions and mergers, which may bring stars from galaxies to the diffuse intragroup light. Numerical simulations of galaxy clusters in hierarchical cosmologies show that
Aguerri, J. A. L. et al.
Fecha de publicación:
10
2006