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arxiv: 1012.5959 · v1 · pith:KS5QRRWCnew · submitted 2010-12-29 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

Five E+A (post-starburst) galaxies as Brightest Cluster Galaxies

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Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) are mostly elliptical galaxies and very rarely have prominent star formation. We found that five out of 8,812 BCGs are E+A (i.e. post-starburst) galaxies, having the H$\delta$~absorption line with an equivalent width $>2.5\AA$ and no distinct emission lines in [O II] and H$\alpha$. The E+A features we identified from the BCGs for the first time are not as significant as those in general galaxies, indicating that historically the star formation were not very violent.

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