A new view of the dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way from VLT flames: Where are the very metal-poor stars?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 651, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Helmi, Amina ^a   Irwin, M J ^b   Tolstoy, E ^a   Battaglia, G ^a   Hill, V ^c   Jablonka, P ^d   Venn, K ^e   Shetrone, M ^f   Letarte, B ^a   Arimoto, N ^g   Abel, T ^h   Francois, P ^c,i   Kaufer, A ⁱ   Primas, F ^j   Sadakane, K ^k   Szeifert, T ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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

^g NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^j EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^k OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: halo; Local Group; Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845737417     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509784     Document Type: Article

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