The toomre sequence revisited with HST NICMOS: Nuclear brightness profiles and colors of interacting and merging galaxies

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2124-2127

  Rossa, Jörn ^a,b   Laine, Seppo ^c   Van Der Marel, Roeland P ^a   Mihos, J Christopher ^d   Hibbard, John E ^e   Böker, Torsten ^f   Zabludoff, Ann I ^g  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b 211 Bryant Space Science Center ^*  (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: spiral

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249108776     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522782     Document Type: Article

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