New estimates of the scale height and surface density of OB stars in the solar neighborhood

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 314-318

  Reed, B Cameron ^a  

^a ALMA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: early type

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001554753     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301421     Document Type: Article

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