Low surface brightness galaxies

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 267-307

  Impey, Chris ^a   Bothun, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Galaxy morphology; Luminosity function; Physical properties; Quasar absorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031440504     PISSN: 00664146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.astro.35.1.267     Document Type: Article

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