The primordial helium abundance: Toward understanding and removing the cosmic scatter in the dY/dZ relation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 536, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 773-777

  Ballantyne, D R ^a,b   Ferland, G J ^a,c   Martin, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: ISM; H II regions; ISM: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034690827     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308984     Document Type: Article

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