A 2mass all-sky view of the sagittarius dwarf galaxy. V. variation of the metallicity distribution function along the sagittarius stream

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 670, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 346-362

  Chou, Mei Yin ^a   Majewski, Steven R ^a   Cunha, Katia ^b,c   Smith, Verne V ^b   Patterson, Richard J ^a   Martínez Delgado, David ^d   Law, David R ^e   Crane, Jeffrey D ^a,f   Muñoz, Ricardo R ^a   López, Ramón Garcia ^g   Geisler, Doug ^h   Skrutskie, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxy: halo; Local group

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049084771     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522483     Document Type: Article

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