The stellar populations of spiral disks. II. Measuring and modeling the radial distribution of absorption spectral indices

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 513, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 695-706

  Mollá, Mercedes ^a   Hardy, Eduardo ^b   Beauchamp, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4303, NGC 4535); Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033540852     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306882     Document Type: Article

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