Halos of spiral galaxies. I. The tip of the red giant branch as a distance indicator

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 633, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 810-820

  Mouhcine, M ^a,b   Ferguson, H C ^c   Rich, R M ^a   Brown, T M ^c   Smith, T E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (NGC 3031, NGC 253, NGC 4244, NGC 4945, NGC 4258); Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044459886     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/468177     Document Type: Article

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