The cosmic production of helium

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5612, 2003, Pages 1552-1555

  Jimenez, Raul ^a   Flynn, Chris ^b,c   MacDonald, James ^d   Gibson, Brad K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DWARF STARS;

HELIUM;

HELIUM; METAL;

ASTRONOMY; HELIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; LIFESPAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037423806     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080866     Document Type: Article

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