The primordial helium abundance from a new sample of metal-deficient blue compact galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 435, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 647-667

  Izotov, Yuri I ^a   Thuan, Trinh X ^b   Lipovetsky, Valentin A ^c  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 12044258647     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/174843     Document Type: Article

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