Slug - Stochastically lighting up galaxies. I. Methods and validating tests

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 745, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Da Silva, Robert L ^a   Fumagalli, Michele ^a   Krumholz, Mark ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: star clusters: general; galaxies: stellar content; methods: numerical; methods: statistical; stars: formation; techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855918305     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/145     Document Type: Article

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