The extended star formation history of the Andromeda spheroid at 35 kpc on the minor axis

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 685, Issue 2 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Brown, Thomas M ^a   Beaton, Rachael ^b   Chiba, Masashi ^c   Ferguson, Henry C ^a   Gilbert, Karoline M ^d   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^d   Iye, Masanori ^e   Kalirai, Jasonjot S ^d,f   Koch, Andreas ^f   Komiyama, Yutaka ^e   Majewski, Steven R ^b   Reitzel, David B ^g   Renzini, Alvio ^g   Rich, R Michael ^g   Smith, Ed ^a   Sweigart, Allen V ^h   Tanaka, Mikito ^e  

^a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Osservatorio Astronomico   (Italy)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Galaxies; Halos; Individual (M31); Stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749165897     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592686     Document Type: Review

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