Star formation history and chemical evolution of the sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 703, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 692-701

  Lee, Myung Gyoon ^a   Yuk, In Soo ^a,b   Park, Hong Soo ^a   Harris, Jason ^c   Zaritsky, Dennis ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: individual (Sextans); Galaxies: stellar content; Local Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549104998     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/692     Document Type: Article

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