Evidence of a significant intermediate-age population in the M31 halo from main-sequence photometry

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 592, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages

  Brown, Thomas M ^a   Ferguson, Henry C ^a   Smith, Ed ^a   Kimble, Randy A ^b   Sweigart, Allen V ^b   Renzini, Alvio ^c   Rich, R Michael ^d   VandenBerg, Don A ^e  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: halos; Galaxies: individual (M31); Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041332882     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376935     Document Type: Article

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