Faber–Jackson relation
Relación Faber-Jackson
- Date
- 1976 · confidence high
- Place
- Santa Cruz, California, United States
- Credited to
- Sandra Faber and Robert Earl Jackson
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The Faber–Jackson relation is the first empirical power-law relation found between the luminosity and central stellar velocity dispersion of elliptical galaxies, presented by astronomers Sandra Faber and Robert Earl Jackson in 1976.
What it led to
- Tool for estimating distances and masses of elliptical galaxies
- Precursor of the later fundamental plane of elliptical galaxies
- Analogous relation to the Tully–Fisher relation for spiral galaxies