Dark matter: Local volume density versus total surface density

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 2 1772, 2003, Pages 762-771

  Chen, Alfred Bing Chih ^a   Lu, Phillip K ^b,c   Méndez, René A ^d   Van Altena, William F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: structure; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141864402     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376736     Document Type: Article

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