Clues to the evolution of the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy from the color distribution of its red giant stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 589, Issue 2 II, 2003, Pages

  Rizzi, Luca ^a,b   Held, Enrico V ^a   Bertelli, Gianpaolo ^a,c   Saviane, Ivo ^d  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: individual (Carina); Galaxies: stellar content; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042788907     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376400     Document Type: Article

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