Seeing galaxies through thick and thin. I. Optical opacity measures in overlapping galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 542, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 761-778

  White III, Raymond E ^a,b,e   Keel, William C ^c,d   Conselice, Christopher J ^c,e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction galaxies: Ism galaxies: Photometry galaxies: Spiral

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034692783     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317011     Document Type: Article

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