A hubble space telescope census of nuclear star clusters in late-type spiral galaxies. II. Cluster sizes and structural parameter correlations

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 1 1777, 2004, Pages 105-118

  Böker, Torsten ^a   Sarzi, Marc ^b   Mclaughlin, Dean E ^c   Van Der Marel, Roeland P ^c   Rix, Hans Walter ^d   Ho, Luis C ^e   Shields, Joseph C ^f  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^f OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: star clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842710979     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380231     Document Type: Article

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