Optical imaging of ultraluminous IRAS galaxies: How many are mergers?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 477-497

  Clements, D L ^a   Sutherland, W J ^b   McMahon, R G ^c   Saunders, W ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: starburst; Infrared: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

DISTURBED SYSTEMS; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES: STARBURSTS; INFRARED GALAXIES; OPTICAL IMAGING;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0000036963     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/279.2.477     Document Type: Article

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