New insights from HST studies of globular cluster systems. I. Colors, distances, and specific frequencies of 28 elliptical galaxies

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2950-2973

  Kundu, Arunav ^a,b,c   Whitmore, Bradley C ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: star clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000554214     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321073     Document Type: Article

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