{
  "id": "1009.3185",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-09-16T14:38:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-10-05T09:39:18.000Z",
  "title": "Tidal Streams in Newly Discovered Compact Elliptical (cE) Galaxies",
  "authors": [
    "Avon Huxor",
    "Steve Phillipps",
    "James Price",
    "Rob Harniman"
  ],
  "comment": "2 pages, 3 figs, in Proc. of conference \"A Universe of Dwarf Galaxies\", Lyon, France, June 2010. New version with minor corrections",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present two newly-discovered, compact elliptical (cE) galaxies, which exhibit clear evidence of tidal steams, found in a search of SDSS DR7. The structural parameters of the cEs are derived using GALFIT and give effective radii < 400 pc. They also possess young to intermediate-age stellar populations. These two cEs provide direct evidence, a \"smoking gun\", for the process of tidal stripping that is believed to be the origin of M32-type galaxies. Both are found in small group environments with many late-type galaxies, suggesting that we may be seeing the formation of such galaxies in dynamically young galaxy groups.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-10-05T09:39:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "tidal streams",
      "compact elliptical",
      "dynamically young galaxy groups",
      "small group environments",
      "intermediate-age stellar populations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1051/eas/1148058"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 2,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 868568,
      "adsabs": "2011EAS....48..257H"
    }
  }
}