Ongoing massive star formation in the bulge of M51

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 566, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 818-832

  Lamers, H J G L M ^a,b   Panagia, N ^c   Scuderi, S ^g   Romaniello, M ^d   Spaans, M ^e   De Wit, W J ^a,b   Kirshner, R ^f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Galaxies: bulges; Galaxies: individual (M51, NGC 5194); Galaxies: spiral galaxies: stellar content; Stars: evolution; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012742947     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338273     Document Type: Article

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