On the metallicity-color relations and bimodal color distributions in extragalactic globular cluster systems

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 669, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 982-989

  Cantiello, Michele ^a,b   Blakeslee, John P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI COLLURANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049154272     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522110     Document Type: Article

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