Properties of hot stars in the Wolf-Rayet galaxy NGC 5253 from ISO-SWS spectroscopy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 304, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 654-668

  Crowther, Paul A ^a   Beck, S C ^b   Willis, Allan J ^a   Conti, Peter S ^c   Morris, Patrick W ^d,e   Sutherland, Ralph S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^e SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual: NGC 5253; Galaxies: starburst; Galaxies: stellar content; Infrared: galaxies; Stars: wolf Rayet

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; IONIZATION;

FINE STRUCTURES; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 5253; GALAXIES: STARBURSTS; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; INFRARED GALAXIES; PROPERTY; STARBURSTS; STARS: WOLF-RAYET; STELLARS; WOLF-RAYET;

STARS;

EID: 0000721183     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02380.x     Document Type: Article

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