Galaxies with Wolf-Rayet signatures in the low-redshift Universe

2008/05/07 by J. Brinchmann, D. Kunth, F. Durret · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Context (archaeology) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Geography #Physics #Redshift #Stars #Universe #Wolf–Rayet star #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200809783

22 pages text with 40 pages tables at end. See accompanying web site at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~jarle/WRinSDSS/

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Abstract

Context. The availability of large spectroscopic datasets has opened up the possibility of constructing large samples of rare objects in a systematic manner.

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