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Bengt Strömgren's Approach to the Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Bengt Gustafsson
Bengt Gustafsson*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 515, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden email: bg@astro.uu.se
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Abstract

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The contributions of Bengt Strömgren to the exploration and understanding of the Galactic Disk are sketched. The question what we can learn from his systematic approach is discussed.

Keywords

Galaxy: diskstars: fundamental parameterstechniques: photometricorbituaries, biographieshistory and philosophy of astronomy
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Issue S254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context , June 2008 , pp. 3 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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