First stellar abundances in the dwarf irregular galaxy sextans A

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 5 1781, 2004, Pages 2723-2737

  Kaufer, Andreas ^a   Venn, Kim A ^b,c   Tolstoy, Eline ^d   Pinte, Christophe ^e   Kudritzki, Rolf Peter ^f  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: individual (Sextans A); Galaxies: irregular; Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942679528     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383209     Document Type: Article

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