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2003AJ....126.1787G - Astron. J., 126, 1787-1793 (2003/October-0)

Hubble space telescope detection of spiral structure in two Coma cluster dwarf galaxies.

GRAHAM A.W., JERJEN H. and GUZMAN R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of spiral-like structure in Hubble Space Telescope images of two dwarf galaxies (GMP 3292 and GMP 3629) belonging to the Coma Cluster. GMP 3629 is the faintest such galaxy detected in a cluster environment, and it is the first such galaxy observed in the dense Coma Cluster. The large bulge and the faintness of the broad spiral-like pattern in GMP 3629 suggest that its disk may have been largely depleted. We may therefore have found an example of the ``missing link'' in theories of galaxy evolution that have predicted that dwarf spiral galaxies, particularly in clusters, evolve into dwarf elliptical galaxies.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxies: Dwarf - Galaxies: Elliptical and Lenticular, cD - Galaxies: Formation - galaxies: individual (GMP 3292) - galaxies: individual (GMP 3629) - Galaxies: Spiral - Galaxies: Structure

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