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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- - What is a dE galaxy ?
- - A brief history
- - Theory
- 2.STRUCTURE
- - Morphological distinction
- - Photometric properties
- 3.KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS
- - The fundamental plane
- - (Non-) rotational support
- - Local dE's and dark matter
- 4.STELLAR CONTENT
- - The local dwarfs
- - Colors and spectra of cluster dE's
- - Correlations between stellar populations and
structure
- 5.LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS
- - Selection effects
- - Clusters vs. field
- 6.SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND
CLUSTERING PROPERTIES
- - Distribution within clusters
- - Dwarf companions in the field
- 7.EVOLUTIONARY SCENARIOS
- - Gravitational collapse
- - Biasing
- - Cooling
- - Suppression of star formation: external
agents
- - Suppression of star formation: internal
agents
- - Secular evolutoin of irregulars to dE's
- - dE's as debris
- 8. APPLICATIONS TO COSMOLOGY
- - Dwarf ellipticals as distance indicators
- - Contribution to faint galaxy counts
- 9. CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES