A capture scenario for the globular cluster ω Centauri

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 589, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages

  Tsuchiya, Toshio ^a,b   Dinescu, Dana I ^c,d   Korchagin, Vladimir I ^c,e  

^a ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^e SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (NGC 5139)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242558379     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375805     Document Type: Article

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