A Hubble Space Telescope census of nuclear star clusters in late-type spiral galaxies. I. Observations and image analysis

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 3 1755, 2002, Pages 1389-1410

  Böker, Torsten ^a,e   Laine, Seppo ^a   Van Der Marel, Roeland P ^a   Sarzi, Marc ^b   Rix, Hans Walter ^b   Ho, Luis C ^c   Shields, Joseph C ^d  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: statistics; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038508028     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339025     Document Type: Article

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