Investigating the possible anomaly between nebular and stellar oxygen abundances in the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 620, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 223-237

  Lee, Henry ^b   Skillman, Evan D ^b   Venn, Kim A ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: evolution galaxies: individual (WLM); Galaxies: irregular

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944411035     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427019     Document Type: Article

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