The HI Environment of Ellipticals with Anomalous Light Profiles
NRAO Summer Student project of Jodie Martin
as advised by J. Hibbard
(pg 1 of 6)
Merger Hypothesis: disk galaxies fall together under the
mutual gravitational influence and coalesce into a single
object (Toomre & Toomre 1972; Toomre 1979). The final object
resembles an elliptical galaxy
Observational Sequence: early stages
(Toomre Sequence)
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