The extended environment of M17: A star formation history

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1278-1306

  Povich, Matthew S ^a   Churchwell, Ed ^a   Bieging, John H ^b   Kang, Miju ^b,c   Whitney, Barbara A ^d   Brogan, Crystal L ^e   Kulesa, Craig A ^b   Cohen, Martin ^f   Babler, Brian L ^a   Indebetouw, Rémy ^g   Meade, Marilyn R ^a   Robitaille, Thomas P ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hii regions; infrared: ISM; radio continuum: ISM; radio lines: ISM; stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449834223     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/1278     Document Type: Review

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