The discovery of two extremely low luminosity Milky Way globular clusters

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 669, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 337-342

  Koposov, S ^a,b   De Jong, J T A ^a   Belokurov, V ^b   Rix, H W ^a   Zucker, D B ^b   Evans, N W ^b   Gilmore, G ^b   Irwin, M J ^b   Bell, E F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Globular clusters: general; Globular clusters: individual (Koposov 1, Koposov 2)

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049121610     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521422     Document Type: Article

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