NGC 488: Has its massive bulge been build up by minor mergers?
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diskmergersminorbeenbuildbulgecannotcool
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Using recent observations of the kinematics of the disk stars the dynamical state of the disk of NGC 488 is discussed. The disk is shown to be dynamically `cool', so that NGC 488 cannot have experienced many -- even minor -- mergers in the past.
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