The ACS survey of galactic globular clusters. VII. Relative ages

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 694, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1498-1516

  Marín Franch, Antonio ^a,b   Aparicio, Antonio ^c   Piotto, Giampaolo ^d   Rosenberg, Alfred ^a   Chaboyer, Brian ^e   Sarajedini, Ata ^b   Siegel, Michael ^f   Anderson, Jay ^g   Bedin, Luigi R ^g   Dotter, Aaron ^e   Hempel, Maren ^b   King, Ivan ^h   Majewski, Steven ⁱ   Milone, Antonino P ^d   Paust, Nathaniel ^g   Reid, I Neill ^g  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b 211 Bryant Space Science Center ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Globular clusters: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649104985     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/694/2/1498     Document Type: Article

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