ω Centauri: Not a recent merger but self-enriched?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 II, 2003, Pages

  Platais, Imants ^a   Wyse, Rosemary F G ^a   Hebb, Leslie ^a   Lee, Young Wook ^b   Rey, Soo Chang ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Globular clusters: individual (NGC 5139); Stars: kinematics; Supernovae: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141725745     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377161     Document Type: Article

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