A stellar relic from the early Milky Way

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6910, 2002, Pages 904-906

  Christlieb, N ^a,b   Bessell, M S ^c   Beers, T C ^d   Gustafsson, B ^a   Korn, A ^e   Barklem, P S ^a   Karlsson, T ^a   Mizuno Wiedner, M ^a   Rossi, S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Departamento de Astronomia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; IRON; SUN;

STARS;

ASTRONOMY;

CALCIUM; CARBON; HYDROGEN; IRON; MAGNESIUM; METAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SODIUM; ZINC;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS; GRAVITY; MODEL; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037206837     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01142     Document Type: Article

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