A Hipparcos census of the nearby OB associations

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 354-399

  De Zeeuw, P T ^a   Hoogerwerf, R ^a   De Bruijne, J H J ^a   Brown, A G A ^b   Blaauw, A ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: general; Open clusters and associations: individual (Gould Belt); Stars: early type; Stars: formation; Stars: kinematics; Stars: pre main sequence; Stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040143488     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300682     Document Type: Article

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