The rest-frame optical spectra of Lyman break galaxies: Star formation, extinction, abundances, and kinematics

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 554, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 981-1000

  Pettini, Max ^a   Shapley, Alice E ^b   Steidel, Charles C ^b   Cuby, Jean Gabriel ^c   Dickinson, Mark ^d   Moorwood, Alan F M ^e   Adelberger, Kurt L ^f   Giavalisco, Mauro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology : observations; Galaxies : abundances; Galaxies : evolution; Galaxies : starburst; Infrared : galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035919354     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321403     Document Type: Article

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