The opacity of spiral galaxy disks. III. Automating the synthetic field method

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1381-1395

  Holwerda, B W ^a,b   Gonzalez, R A ^c   Allen, Ronald J ^a   Van Der Kruit, P C ^b  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRO DE RADIOASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; Dust, extinction; Galaxies: individual (NGC 1365, NGC 4536); Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: spiral; Methods: statistical; Radiative transfer; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444395872     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427711     Document Type: Article

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