NGC 6791: An exotic open cluster or the nucleus of a tidally disrupted galaxy?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 643, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 1151-1159

  Carraro, Giovanni ^a,b,d   Villanova, Sandro ^b   Demarque, Pierre ^a   Mcswain, M Virginia ^a,e   Piotto, Giampaolo ^b   Bedin, Luigi R ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: general; Open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 6791)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746886235     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500801     Document Type: Article

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