Deep Hubble Space Telescope STIS color-magnitude diagrams of the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM: Detection of the horizontal branch

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 801-809

  Rejkuba, Marina ^a,b   Minniti, Dante ^b,c   Gregg, Michael D ^c,d   Zijlstra, Albert A ^e   Alonso, M Victoria ^f   Goudfrooij, Paul ^g  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^g AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (WLM = DDO 221 = A2359 1544 = UGCA 444); Galaxies: irregular; Galaxies: stellar content; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000002899     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301501     Document Type: Article

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