Young star clusters in interacting galaxies - NGC 1487 and NGC 4038/4039

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 489, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1091-1105

  Mengel, S ^a   Lehnert, D ^b   Thatte, A ^c   Vacca, D ^d   Whitmore, B ^e   Chandar, R ^f  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e STScI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: star clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749154847     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809649     Document Type: Article

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