Toward a robust estimate of the merger rate evolution using near-IR photometry

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 681, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1089-1098

  Rawat, A ^a,b   Hammer, Francois ^b   Kembhavi, Ajit K ^a   Flores, Hector ^b  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549101907     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588774     Document Type: Article

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