Spitzer survey of the large magellanic cloud: Surveying the agents of a Galaxy's evolution (SAGE). I. Overview and initial results

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2268-2288

  Meixner, Margaret ^a   Gordon, Karl D ^b   Indebetouw, Remy ^c   Hora, Joseph L ^d   Whitney, Barbara ^e   Blum, Robert ^f   Reach, William ^g   Bernard, Jean Philippe ^h   Meade, Marilyn ⁱ   Babler, Brian ⁱ   Engelbracht, Charles W ^b   For, Bi Qing ^b   Misselt, Karl ^b   Vijh, Uma ^a   Leitherer, Claus ^a   Cohen, Martin ^j   Churchwell, Ed B ^j   Boulanger, Francois ^k   Frogel, Jay A ^l   Fukui, Yasuo ^m   Gallagher, Jay ⁱ   Gorjian, Varoujan ⁿ   Harris, Jason ^b   Kelly, Douglas ^b   Kawamura, Akiko ^m   Kim, SoYoung ^o   Latter, William B ^g   Madden, Suzanne ^p   Markwick Kemper, Ciska ^c   Mizuno, Akira ^m   Mizuno, Norikazu ^m   Mould, Jeremy ^q   Nota, Antonella ^a   Oey, M S ^r   Olsen, Knut ^b   Onishi, Toshikazu ^m   Paladini, Roberta ^g   Panagia, Nino ^a   Perez Gonzalez, Pablo ^b   Shibai, Hirosm ^m   Sato, Shuji ^m   Smith, Linda ^a,s   Staveley Smith, Lister ^t   Tielens, A G G M ^u   Ueta, Toshiya ^u,v   Van Dyk, Schuyler ^g   Volk, Kevin ^w   Werner, Michael ⁿ   Zaritsky, Dennis ^b   more..

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^f CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h IRAP   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k CNRS   (France)

^l University of Space Research Association   (United States)

^m NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^o JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^q NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t CSIRO   (Australia)

^u NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^w GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; ISM: general; Magellanic clouds; Stars: AGB and post AGB; Stars: formation; Stars: mass loss; Supergiants; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845945133     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508185     Document Type: Article

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