The Butcher-Oemler effect in 295 clusters: Strong redshift evolution and cluster richness dependence

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 548, Issue 2 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Margoniner, V E ^a,b   De Carvalho, R R ^b   Gal, R R ^c   Djorgovski, S G ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035916467     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319099     Document Type: Article

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