A successful targeted search for hypervelocity stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 640, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages

  Brown, Warren R ^a,b   Geller, Margaret J ^a   Kenyon, Scott J ^a   Kurtz, Michael J ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: early type

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645511891     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503279     Document Type: Article

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