A new definition for the Ca4227 feature: Is calcium really underabundant in early-type galaxies?

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2666-2676

  Prochaska, L C ^a   Rose, James A ^a   Schiavon, Ricardo P ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645141765     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497642     Document Type: Article

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