The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Stellar population trends across and through the Fundamental Plane

Christopher M. Springob, Christina Magoulas, Rob Proctor, Matthew Colless, D. Heath Jones, Chiaki Kobayashi, Lachlan Campbell, John Lucey and Jeremy Mould, 'The 6dF Galaxy Survey: stellar population trends across and through the Fundamental Plane', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 420, pp. 2773-2784, first published online 1 March 2012. The version of record is available online at doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19900.x. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2012 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2012 RAS. A version of this paper with fully interactive 3D figures, viewable with Adobe Reader 8.0 or higher, is available as an ancillary file with this release, and can also be accessed from this link.

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