Distant ring galaxies as evidence for a steeply increasing galaxy interaction rate with redshift

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 467, Issue 1 PART II, 1996, Pages

  Lavery, Russell J ^a   Seitzer, Patrick ^b   Suntzeff, Nicholas B ^b   Walker, Alistair R ^b   Costa, G S D A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: peculiar; Galaxies: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002479232     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310194     Document Type: Article

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