Isolating red giant stars in M31's elusive outer spheroid

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 707-722

  Reitzel, David B ^a   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^a   Gould, Andrew ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation stars; Galaxies; General; Individual (M31 = NGC 224 = UGC 454 = CGCG 535 017) galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008583729     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300458     Document Type: Article

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