Bailing out the Milky Way: Variation in the properties of massive dwarfs among galaxy-sized systems

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Purcell, Chris W ^a   Zentner, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

dwarfs galaxies; galaxy evolution; galaxy formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871765617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/007     Document Type: Article

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