Unveiling Galaxy Bulge Formation with Gemini/GMOS

Left: Gemini/GMOS observational set up for one of the sample galaxies. Background image

Right: GMOS spectra as a function of radius for NGC 628. Many of the stellar absorption-line features, known as "Lick Indices," are marked as vertical shading.

Credit:

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/GMOS team/

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Release date:Feb. 11, 2009, 9:22 p.m.
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