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MASSES AND MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS OF GALAXIES
1
S. M. Faber 2
Lick Observatory,
Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
J. S. Gallagher
Department of
Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- THE MILKY WAY
- The Solar Neighborhood, a Benchmark in M/L
- Mass of the Milky Way
- MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS OF SPIRAL GALAXIES
- Observed Rotation Curves
- Mass-to-Light Ratios
- MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS OF E AND S0 GALAXIES
- MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS OF BINARY GALAXIES
- DYNAMICS OF SMALL GROUPS OF GALAXIES
- Crossing Times
- Mass-to-Light Ratios
- Compact Groups
- The Local Group
- Conclusion
- GALAXY MASSES FROM CLUSTER MEMBERSHIP
- The Virial Theorem
- Other Methods of Mass Determination
- Uncertainties
- Conclusion
- CODA
- REFERENCES
1 Supported in Part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and
National Science Foundation Grant No. AST 77-18270.
2 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
