The shape of galaxy disks: How the scale height increases with galactocentric distance

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 320, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  De Grijs, R ^a   Peletier, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: statistics; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002283746     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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