A near-infrared survey of Miras and the distance to the Galactic Centre

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 399, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1709-1729

  Matsunaga, Noriyuki ^a,b   Kawadu, Takahiro ^b   Nishiyama, Shogo ^b   Nagayama, Takahiro ^b   Hatano, Hirofumi ^c   Tamura, Motohide ^d   Glass, Ian S ^e   Nagata, Tetsuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxy: centre; Galaxy: structure; Infrared: stars; Stars: AGB and post AGB; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; LUMINANCE; STARS; SURVEYS;

DUST EXTINCTIONS; GALACTIC CENTER; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY CENTER; INFRARED: STAR; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED; STAR: VARIABLE: OTHER; STARS: VARIABLES; STARS:AGB AND POST AGB;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 70350780340     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15393.x     Document Type: Article

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