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Dwarf Content of Old Galaxy Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. E. Whitford
A. E. Whitford*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Scanner observations of five galaxies in the region near 9910 Å showed that the strength of the dwarf-sensitive Wing-Ford band is below the level of detection. This result is at variance with the predictions of strongly dwarf-enriched population models and in accord with the evidence for giant-dominated radiation at 2.3μ reported by Baldwin et al. (1973) on the basis of the strong CO band found in three galaxies. In the absence of any evidence for a power-law mass function, the consequences of a rounded function are examined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 58: The Formation and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1974 , pp. 169 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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