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Galaxy Isophotes

Galaxy Isophotes is a morphological construct in astronomy defined as a set of contours of equal surface brightness in an image of a galaxy, used to characterize its structural properties and light distribution.

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Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images

Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho, Chris Impey et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2002 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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CCD surface photometry of elliptical galaxies - I. Observations, reduction and results

R. Jędrzejewski · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1987 · 827 citations

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal Analysis and the Structure of Early‐Type Galaxies

Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, Andrés Jordán et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2006 · 607 citations · Full text

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Structure and Kinematics of Early-Type Galaxies from Integral Field Spectroscopy

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2016 · 491 citations · Full text

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CCD surface photometry of galaxies with dynamical data. II - UBR photometry of 39 elliptical galaxies

R. F. Peletier, Roger L. Davies, G. D. Illingworth et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 1990 · 451 citations

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  1. TR
    Tod R. Lauer

    Kitt Peak National Observatory, United States

    4 publications · 352 citations

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  2. RL
    Roger L. Davies

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 1K citations

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  3. LF
    Laura Ferrarese

    Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada

    3 publications · 898 citations

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  4. PW
    P. W. Hodge

    University of Washington, United States

    3 publications · 137 citations

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  5. RB
    R. Bender

    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

    3 publications · 70 citations

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223

  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    16 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    973 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    4K citations

  5. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    402 citations

  6. Kitt Peak National Observatory

    Tucson, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    905 citations

  7. Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

    Padua, Italy

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    335 citations

  8. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    2.5K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 61 publications · 3.4K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    41 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 33 publications · 4.8K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

    17 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    4 publications · 168 citations

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