Evidence for multiple mergers among ultraluminous infrared galaxies: Remnants of compact groups?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 529, Issue 2 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Borne, Kirk D ^a   Bushouse, Howard ^b   Lucas, Ray A ^b   Colina, Luis ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: starburst; Infrared: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034134969     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312461     Document Type: Article

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