Local benchmarks for the evolution of major-merger galaxies - Spitzer observations of a k-band selected sample

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 713, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 330-355

  Xu, C Kevin ^a   Domingue, Donovan ^b   Cheng, Yi Wen ^a,c,d   Lu, Nanyao ^a   Huang, Jiasheng ^e   Gao, Yu ^f   Mazzarella, Joseph M ^a   Cutri, Roc ^a   Sun, Wei Hsin ^d   Surace, Jason ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: starburst

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950191301     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/330     Document Type: Article

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