Halos of spiral galaxies. III. Metallicity distributions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 633, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 828-843

  Mouhcine, M ^a,b   Rich, R M ^a   Ferguson, H C ^c   Brown, T M ^c   Smith, T E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: halos galaxies: individual (NGC 55, NGC 247, NGC 253, NGC 300, NGC 3031, NGC 4244, NGC 4945, NGC 4258); Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044446136     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/468179     Document Type: Article

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