The opacity of nearby galaxies from counts of background galaxies. II. Limits of the synthetic field method

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 3 1767, 2003, Pages 1182-1203

  González, Rosa A ^a,d   Loinard, Laurent ^a   Allen, Ronald J ^b   Muller, Sébastien ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c IRAM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: individual (M31, NGC 4536, Large Magellanic Cloud); Galaxies: ISM galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: statistics; ISM: general; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344399233     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/346137     Document Type: Article

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