Circumnuclear star clusters in the galaxy merger NGC 6240, observed with keck adaptive optics and the Hubble Space Telescope

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 660, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 288-300

  Pollack, L K ^a   Max, C E ^a,b,c   Schneider, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (NGC 6240); Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: starburst; Instrumentation: adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249100557     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512777     Document Type: Article

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