A spectroscopic study of the ancient milky way: F- and G-type stars in the third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 804-820

  Prieto, Carlos Allende ^a   Beers, Timothy C ^b   Wilhelm, Ronald ^c   Newberg, Heidi J O ^d   Rockosi, Constance M ^e   Yanny, Brian ^f   Lee, Young Sun ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; Stars: abundances stars: fundamental parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044432170     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498131     Document Type: Article

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