Shell Galaxies is a morphological class of elliptical galaxies characterized by the presence of faint, concentric, shell-like stellar structures that distinguish them from smooth-density ellipticals and are interpreted as remnants of recent minor mergers.
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A catalog of elliptical galaxies with shells
D. F. Malin, D. Carter · The Astrophysical Journal · 1983 · 328 citations
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Galaxy collisions and mergers - The genesis of very powerful radio sources?
Timothy M. Heckman, Eric P. Smith, Stefi A. Baum et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1986 · 323 citations
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Structure of merger remnants. I - Bulgeless progenitors
Lars Hernquist · The Astrophysical Journal · 1992 · 254 citations
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Formation of shell galaxies. I - Spherical potentials
Lars Hernquist, Peter J. Quinn · The Astrophysical Journal · 1988 · 185 citations
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Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Tenerife, Spain
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Czech Academy of Sciences, Astronomical Institute
Ondřejov, Czechia
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Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Heidelberg, Germany
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Charles University
Prague, Czechia
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Masaryk University
Brno, Czechia
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, United States
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Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
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