Analysis and calibration of Ca II triplet spectroscopy of red giant branch stars from VLT/FLAMES observations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 383, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 183-199

  Battaglia, G ^a   Irwin, M ^b   Tolstoy, E ^a   Hill, V ^c   Helmi, A ^a   Letarte, B ^a,d   Jablonka, P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: star clusters; Stars: abundances; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GALAXIES: DWARF; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW-HIGH; LOWER RESOLUTION; METALLICITIES; RESOLUTION MODES; SPECTROSCOPIC DETERMINATIONS; STARS ABUNDANCES; TECHNIQUES: SPECTROSCOPIC;

GIANT STARS;

EID: 37349005850     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12532.x     Document Type: Article

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