An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7113, 2006, Pages 832-834

  Block, D L ^a   Bournaud, F ^b,d   Combes, F ^b   Groess, R ^a   Barmby, P ^c   Ashby, M L N ^c   Fazio, G G ^c   Pahre, M A ^c   Willner, S P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DUST RING; RADIO WAVELENGTHS; STAR FORMATION;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY; COLLISION; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; COSMOS; GRAVITY; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANDROMEDA;

EID: 33750304316     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05184     Document Type: Article

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