Universality of galactic surface densities within one dark halo scale-length

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7264, 2009, Pages 627-628

  Gentile, Gianfranco ^a,b   Famaey, Benoit ^b,c,d   Zhao, Hongsheng ^e,f   Salucci, Paolo ^g  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GRAVITY FIELD; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARK HALO; DENSITY; GRAVITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 70349694387     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08437     Document Type: Article

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