Tip of the red giant branch distances to galaxies. III. the dwarf galaxy sextans A

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 461, Issue 2 PART I, 1996, Pages 713-723

  Sakai, Shoko ^a   Madore, Barry F ^b   Freedman, Wendy L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (Sextans A); Hertzsprung Russell diagram; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344434243     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177096     Document Type: Article

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