Deep Hubble space telescope galaxy and pair counts as tests of merger history

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1513-1528

  Wu, Wentao ^a   Keel, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001788858     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300526     Document Type: Article

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