Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a peculiar stellar complex in NGC 6946

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 567, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 896-914

  Larsen, SØren S ^a   Efremov, Yuri N ^b   Elmegreen, Bruce G ^c   Alfaro, Emilio J ^d   Battinelli, Paolo ^e   Hodge, Paul W ^f   Richtler, Tom ^g  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (NGC 6946); Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000484723     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338385     Document Type: Article

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