The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury. IX. Constraining asymptotic giant branch evolution with old metal-poor galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 724, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1030-1043

  Girardi, Léo ^a   Williams, Benjamin F ^b   Gilbert, Karoline M ^b   Rosenfield, Philip ^b   Dalcanton, Julianne J ^b   Marigo, Paola ^c   Boyer, Martha L ^d   Dolphin, Andrew ^e   Weisz, Daniel R ^f   Melbourne, Jason ^g   Olsen, Knut A G ^h   Seth, Anil C ⁱ   Skillman, Evan ^f  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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

^e RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^f University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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Stars: general

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EID: 78650098865     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/724/2/1030     Document Type: Article

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