Gemini spectroscopic survey of young star clusters in merging/interacting galaxies. I. NGC 3256 tidal tail clusters

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 658, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 993-998

  Trancho, Gelys ^a,b   Bastian, Nate ^c   Schweizer, François ^d   Miller, Bryan W ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^e GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general; Globular clusters: individual (NGC 3256)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247264937     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511735     Document Type: Article

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