Uncovering extremely metal-poor stars in the Milky way's ultrafaint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 685, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Kirby, Evan N ^a   Simon, Joshua D ^b   Geha, Marla ^c   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^a   Frebel, Anna ^d  

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

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundances; Dwarf; Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849092507     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592432     Document Type: Article

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