Ultraviolet imaging of the irregular galaxy NGC 4449 with the ultraviolet imaging telescope: Photometry and recent star formation history

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 507, Issue 1 PART I, 1998, Pages 179-198

  Hill, Robert S ^a   Fanelli, Michael N ^a   Smith, Denise A ^a   Bohlin, Ralph C ^a   Neff, Susan G ^a   O'Connell, Robert W ^b   Roberts, Morton S ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^c   Stecher, Theodore P ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Individual (NGC 4449); Galaxies: Irregular; Galaxies: Photometry; Galaxies: Stellar content; Ultraviolet: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 24544456532     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306302     Document Type: Article

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