The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey: VI. Metallicity distribution of main-sequence turnoff stars in the Galactic halo

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 521, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Li, H N ^a,b,c   Christlieb, N ^b   Schorck T ^b   Norris, J E ^d   Bessell, M S ^d   Yong, D ^d   Beers, T C ^e   Lee, Y S ^e   Frebel, A ^f   Zhao, G ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; stars: abundances; stars: Population II; stars: statistics; surveys

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROPS; METALS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTIONS; GALAXY: HALO; MODERATE RESOLUTION; SIMPLE MODELING; STARS: ABUNDANCES; STARS: POPULATION II; STARS: STATISTICS; STELLAR CONTENT;

STARS;

EID: 77958019929     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014797     Document Type: Article

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