Clustered star formation as a natural explanation for the Hα cut-off in disk galaxies

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7213, 2008, Pages 641-643

  Pflamm Altenburg, Jan ^a   Kroupa, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; EVOLUTION; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 53349121999     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07266     Document Type: Article

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