Ages and metallicities of young globular clusters in the merger remnant NGC 7252

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2206-2219

  Schweizer, François ^a   Seitzer, Patrick ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: individual (NGC 7252, NGC 1700); Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: star clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001262864     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300616     Document Type: Article

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