The metallicity dependence of RR Lyrae absolute magnitudes from synthetic horizontal-branch models

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1398-1404

  Demarque, Pierre ^b   Zinn, Robert ^b   Lee, Young Wook ^c   Yi, Sukyoung ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: halo; Globular clusters: general RR Lyrae variable; Stars: evolution; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001036226     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301261     Document Type: Article

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