The highly unusual chemical composition of the Hercules dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 688, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Koch, Andreas ^a   McWilliam, Andrew ^a   Grebel, Eva K ^b   Zucker, Daniel B ^c   Belokurov, Vasily ^c  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: individual (Hercules); Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis: abundances online material: color figures; Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649175976     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595001     Document Type: Article

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