Estimation of carbon abundances in metal-poor stars. I. Application to the strong G-band stars of Beers, Preston, and Shectman

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2804-2823

  Rossi, Silvia ^a,f,g   Beers, Timothy C ^b,c,f,g,h   Sneden, Chris ^c   Sevastyanenko, Tatiana ^b,f   Rhee, Jaehyon ^d,e,f,g   Marsteller, Brian ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^h EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Stars: abundances; Stars: carbon; Stars: Population II; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645147444     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497164     Document Type: Article

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