Toward an understanding of the systematic uncertainties in deriving the primordial helium abundance from H II region observations

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 105-114

  Skillman, Evan D ^a   Terlevich, Elena ^b   Terlevich, Roberto ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis; H II Region Abundances; Primordial Helium

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342650198     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005046629367     Document Type: Article

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