Near-infrared imaging observations of the N159/N160 complex in the large magellanic cloud: Large clusters of Herbig Ae/Be stars and sequential cluster formation

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 776-789

  Nakajima, Yasushi ^a   Kato, Daisuke ^b   Nagata, Tetsuya ^c   Tamura, Motohide ^a   Sato, Shuji ^b   Sugitani, Koji ^d   Nagashima, Chie ^b   Nagayama, Takahiro ^c   Iwata, Ikuru ^a   Ita, Yoshifusa ^e   Tanabe, Toshihiko ^f   Kurita, Mlkio ^b   Nakaya, Hldehiko ^a   Baba, Daisuke ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Infrared: stars; Magellanic Clouds; Stars: formation; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 20144384088     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/426917     Document Type: Article

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