The millennium galaxy catalogue: Dynamically close pairs of galaxies and the global merger rate

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1516-1523

  De Propris, Roberto ^a   Liske, Jochen ^b   Driver, Simon P ^a,c   Allen, Paul D ^c   Cross, Nicholas J G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744543121     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/433169     Document Type: Article

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