The primordial helium-4 abundance from observations of a large sample of blue compact dwarf galaxies

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 83-94

  Thuan, Trinh Xuan ^a   Izotov, Yuri I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Chemical evolution; Cosmic abundance; Dwarf galaxies; Helium 4; HII region

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002401341     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005090411620     Document Type: Article

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