What drives the Balmer extinction sequence in spiral galaxies? Clues from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 475-489

  Stasinska G ^a   Mateus Jr , A ^b   Sodre Jr L ^b   Szczerba, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: stellar content; ISM: dust, extinction

Indexed keywords

DUST; GALAXIES; HYDROGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPACE RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

DUST EXTINCTION; EMISSION LINE PARAMETERS; SPIRAL GALAXIES; STELLAR CONTENTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 2942619081     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040117     Document Type: Article

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