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astro-ph2008
How Do Galaxies Form?
Sidney van den Bergh
It is currently believed that galaxies were assembled via chaotic hierarchical mergers between massive cold dark matter halos, in which baryonic star forming matter was embedded. O…
astro-ph2008★ 14 cited
The Magnitude-Diameter Relation of Galaxies
Sidney van den Bergh
We investigate the dependence of the luminosity-diameter relation of galaxies on the environment. This study is based on a comparison between the 80 galaxies in the Shapley-Ames Ca…
astro-ph2008★ 13 cited
Luminosity-Diameter Relations for Globular Clusters and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Sidney van den Bergh
It is shown that globular clusters and the dwarf spheroidal companions of the Galaxy have a different distribution of flattening values, and appear to occupy adjacent regions of th…