Stellar metallicities and kinematics in a gas-rich dwarf galaxy: First calcium triplet spectroscopy of red giant branch stars in WLM

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 699, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Leaman, Ryan ^a   Cole, Andrew A ^b   Venn, Kim A ^a   Tolstoy, Eline ^c   Irwin, Mike J ^d   Szeifert, Thomas ^e   Skillman, Evan D ^f   McConnachie, Alan W ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^f University of Minnesota   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Abundances; Galaxies: Dwarf; Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Individual (WLM) galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049139038     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/1     Document Type: Article

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