Star clusters in the tidal tails of interacting galaxies: Cluster populations across a variety of tail environments

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 731, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Mullan, B ^a   Konstantopoulos, I S ^a   Kepley, A A ^b,c   Lee, K H ^a   Charlton, J C ^a   Knierman, K ^d   Bastian, N ^e   Chandar, R ^f   Durrell, P R ^g   Elmegreen, D ^h   English, J ⁱ   Gallagher, S C ^j   Gronwall, C ^a   Hibbard, J E ^c   Hunsberger, S ^a   Johnson, K E ^b   Maybhate, A ^k   Palma, C ^a   Trancho, G ^l   Vacca, W D ^m  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^g YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^k AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^l GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^m UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

galaxies: interactions; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: star clusters: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955008746     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/731/2/93     Document Type: Article

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