How typical are the local group dwarf galaxies?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 743, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Weisz, Daniel R ^a,b   Dolphin, Andrew E ^c   Dalcanton, Julianne J ^a   Skillman, Evan D ^b   Holtzman, Jon ^d   Williams, Benjamin F ^a   Gilbert, Karoline M ^a   Seth, Anil C ^e   Cole, Andrew ^f   Gogarten, Stephanie M ^a   Rosema, Keith ^a   Karachentsev, Igor D ^g   McQuinn, Kristen B W ^b   Zaritsky, Dennis ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: stellar content; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855219080     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/8     Document Type: Article

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