A new method to measure and map the gas scale height of disk galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 555, Issue 1 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Padoan, Paolo ^a   Kim, Sungeun ^a   Goodman, Alyssa ^a   Staveley Smith, Lister ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: Structure; Magellanic clouds; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035385051     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321735     Document Type: Article

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