Detection of wolf-rayet stars of WN and WC subtypes in super-star clusters of NGC 5253

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 481, Issue 2 PART II, 1997, Pages

  Schaerer, Daniel ^a,b   Contini, Thierry ^c,d   Kunth, Daniel ^e   Meynet, Georges ^b  

^a AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (NGC 5253); Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: starburst; H II regions; Stars: Wolf Rayet

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744441718     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310659     Document Type: Article

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