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Optical Diffuse Light in Clusters of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Rosendo Vílchez-Gímez
Rosendo Vílchez-Gímez*
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Abstract

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I present here a review of the observed characteristics of the optical diffuse light in clusters, the possible sources of this light and some of the theories that try to explain the existence of big envelopes around the brightest cluster galaxies.

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Type
Extra-galactic background light
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 171: The Low Surface Brightness Universe , 1999, pp. 349 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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