Star formation in the most distant molecular cloud in the extreme outer Galaxy: A laboratory of star formation in an early epoch of the Galaxy's formation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 683, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 178-188

  Kobayashi, Naoto ^a   Yasui, Chikako ^a   Tokunaga, Alan T ^b   Saito, Masao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: formation; Infrared: stars; ISM: clouds; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: formation; Stars: pre main sequence; Supernova remnants

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449104475     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588421     Document Type: Article

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