Tidally triggered star formation in close pairs of galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 530, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 660-679

  Barton, Elizabeth J ^a,b   Geller, Margaret J ^a   Kenyon, Scott J ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: stellar content; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034688545     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308392     Document Type: Article

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