Fitting a Galactic model to an all-sky survey

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 4 1768, 2003, Pages 1958-1979

  Larsen, Jeffrey A ^a   Humphreys, Roberta M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: structure; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041639371     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368364     Document Type: Review

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