A new low mass for the Hercules dSph: The end of a common mass scale for the dwarfs?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 706, Issue 1 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Aden D ^a   Wilkinson, M I ^b   Read, J I ^b,c   Feltzing, S ^a   Koch, A ^b   Gilmore, G F ^d   Grebel, E K ^e   Lundstrom I ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: individual (Hercules); Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149171027     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/L150     Document Type: Article

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