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Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Host Galaxies of BL Lacertae Objects

  • Authors: C. Megan Urry, Renato Falomo, Riccardo Scarpa, Joseph E. Pesce, Aldo Treves, and Mauro Giavalisco

Urry et al. 1999 The Astrophysical Journal 512 88.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 5.

Color profiles for the six BL Lac objects with images in multiple WFPC2 filters. None shows a strong gradient outside 1﹩\arcsec﹩. The horizontal line represents the expected color for a normal elliptical galaxy at the redshift of the BL Lac. The profile of 1538+149 is bluer than expected, especially at the center, but the bluer (R‐band) image is the weakest detection of this set.

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