The Hubble sequence: just a vestige of merger events?

F. Hammer; H. Flores; M. Puech; Y. B. Yang; E. Athanassoula; M. Rodrigues; R. Delgado

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Issue		A&A Volume 507, Number 3, December I 2009


Page(s)		1313 - 1326
Section		Extragalactic astronomy
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912115
Published online		01 October 2009

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