The millennium galaxy catalogue: The connection between close pairs and asymmetry; Implications for the galaxy merger rate

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 666, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 212-221

  De Propris, Roberto ^a   Conselice, Christopher J ^b   Liske, Jochen ^c   Driver, Simon P ^d   Patton, David R ^e   Graham, Alister W ^f   Allen, Paul D ^d  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348924328     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520488     Document Type: Article

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