Age and abundance discrimination in old stellar populations using mid-ultraviolet colors

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 878-890

  Dorman, Ben ^a,b   O'Connell, Robert W ^a   Rood, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Stellar content; Ultraviolet: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141837024     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375413     Document Type: Article

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