An extended star formation history for the galactic center from hubble space telescope NICMOS observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 601, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 319-339

  Figer, Donald F ^a,b   Rich, R Michael ^c   Kim, Sungsoo S ^d   Morris, Mark ^c   Serabyn, Eugene ^e  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: center; Infrared: stars; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642633359     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380392     Document Type: Article

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