Surface brightness and stellar populations at the outer edge of the large magellanic cloud: No stellar halo yet

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 614, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Gallart, Carme ^a   Stetson, Peter B ^b   Hardy, Eduardo ^c   Pont, Frederic ^d   Zinn, Robert ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: halos; Galaxies: stellar content; Magellanic Clouds; Online material: color figures

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044290886     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425866     Document Type: Article

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