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astro-ph1998
Environmental Effects on the Faint End of the Luminosity Function
S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones, R. M. Smith +2
Recent studies have demonstrated that many galaxy clusters have luminosity functions (LFs) which are steep at the faint end. However, it is equally clear that not all clusters have…
astro-ph1998
Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies in the Bristol - Anglo-Australian Observatory Virgo Cluster Survey
J. B. Jones, S. Phillipps, J. M. Schwartzenberg +1
We describe a new, deep photographic survey of the Virgo Cluster which uses multiple exposures on Tech Pan film with the United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope to probe the dwarf populat…
astro-ph1998
Found: High Surface Brightness Compact Galaxies
M. J. Drinkwater, S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones +5
We are using the 2dF spectrograph to make a survey of all objects (`stars' and `galaxies') in a 12 sq.deg region towards the Fornax cluster. We have discovered a population of comp…