Galactic extinction from colors and counts of field galaxies in WFPC2 frames: An application to GRB 970228

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 515, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 69-78

  González, Rosa A ^a   Fruchter, Andrew S ^a   Dirsch, Boris ^b  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: statistics; Gamma rays: bursts; ISM: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040531754     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307015     Document Type: Article

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