The discovery of more than 2000 white dwarfs in the globular cluster ω centauri

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 621, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages

  Monelli, M ^a   Corsi, C E ^a   Castellani, V ^a,b   Ferraro, I ^a   Iannicola, G ^a   Prada Moroni, P G ^c,d,e   Bono, G ^a   Buonanno, R ^f   Calamida, A ^a,f   Freyhammer, L M ^g,h   Pulone, L ^a   Stetson, P B ⁱ  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI COLLURANIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^g ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^h VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

ⁱ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: General; Globular clusters: Individual ( centauri)

Indexed keywords

EID: 20844443643     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429255     Document Type: Article

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