Dense molecular gas in a sample of LIRGs and ULIRGs: The low-redshift connection to the huge high-redshift starbursts and AGNs

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 313, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 331-335

  Graciá Carpio, Javier ^a   García Burillo, Santiago ^a   Planesas, Pere ^a  

^a OBSERVATORIO ASTRONÓMICO NACIONAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: starburst; Infrared: galaxies; ISM: molecules; Radio lines: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849018192     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-007-9629-y     Document Type: Article

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