DOI: 10.1017/s174392132500081x ISSN: 1743-9213

Explaining the emission lines in early-type galaxies

Grażyna Stasińska

Abstract

We explore the hypothesis that the weak emission lines observed in some early-type galaxies (ETGs) are due to ionization by hot low-mass evolved stars (HOLMES) and analyze the pros and cons.

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