The core of NGC 6240 from keck adaptive optics and hubble space telescope nicmos observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 621, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 738-749

  Max, C E ^a,b   Canalizo, G ^c   Macintosh, B A ^b   Raschke, L ^a   Whysong, D ^d   Antonucci, R ^d   Schneider, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: individual (NGC 6240); Galaxies: interactions; Instrumentation: adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444409387     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427546     Document Type: Article

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