Metallicity and alpha-element abundance measurement in red giant stars from medium-resolution spectra

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 682, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1217-1233

  Kirby, Evan N ^a   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^a   Sneden, Christopher ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (M13, M15, M71, M79, NGC 2419, NGC 7006, NGC 7492); Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549102785     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589627     Document Type: Article

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