An estimate of the structural parameters of the large magellanic cloud using red clump stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 520, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Subramanian, S ^a,b   Subramaniam, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT   (India)

Author keywords

galaxies: structure; Magellanic Clouds; stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN COORDINATE; DATA SETS; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; FITTING METHOD; GALAXIES: STRUCTURE; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; INNER STRUCTURE; LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS; MAGELLANIC CLOUDS; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; PHOTOMETRIC DATA; POSITION ANGLE; RED CLUMP STARS; RELATIVE DISTANCES; STARS: HORIZONTAL-BRANCH; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUB-REGIONS; TIDAL EFFECTS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

CLOUDS; GALAXIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOMETRY; STARS; SURVEYS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 78649293457     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014201     Document Type: Article

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