The discovery and analysis of very metal-poor stars in the galaxy

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 43, Issue , 2005, Pages 531-580

  Beers, Timothy C ^a   Christlieb, Norbert ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon; Evolution; Galaxy: evolution; Halo; Population II; Population III; Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844464018     PISSN: 00664146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.astro.42.053102.134057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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