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Chemically decoupled nucleus and the structure of the nuclear region in the spiral galaxy NGC 488
Bibcode: 1999AstL...25..140S

Sil'chenko, O. K.

The regular Sb-type galaxy NGC 488 was observed at the 6-meter telescope with the Multi-Pupil Field Spectrograph and found to have a chemically decoupled nucleus. Stellar population in the nucleus is twice richer in metals than that of the central bulge. An analysis of the isophotal shapes in the central part of the galaxy based on the images obta…

1999 Astronomy Letters
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