Formation of molecular gas in the tidal debris of violent galaxy-galaxy interactions

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6772, 2000, Pages 867-869

  Braine, Jonathan ^a   Lisenfeld, Ute ^b   Due, Pierre Alain ^c,d   Leon, Stéphane ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Inst Radioastronomie Millimetrique   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOMIC PARTICLE; DENSITY; GAS; GRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034708060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002521     Document Type: Article

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