Reconstructing galaxy histories from globular clusters

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6969, 2004, Pages 31-35

  West, Michael J ^a   Côté, Patrick ^b   Marzke, Ronald O ^c   Jordán, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; SPACE RESEARCH;

STARS; UNIVERSE;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY;

COSMOS; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0347088875     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02235     Document Type: Review

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