The WFC3 Galactic bulge treasury program: Metallicity estimates for the stellar population and exoplanet hosts

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 725, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Brown, Thomas M ^a   Sahu, Kailash ^a   Anderson, Jay ^a   Tumlinson, Jason ^a   Valenti, Jeff A ^a   Smith, Ed ^a   Jeffery, Elizabeth J ^a   Renzini, Alvio ^b   Zoccali, Manuela ^c   Ferguson, Henry C ^a   VandenBerg, Don A ^d   Bond, Howard E ^a   Casertano, Stefano ^a   Valenti, Elena ^e   Minniti, Dante ^c,f   Livio, Mario ^a   Panagia, Nino ^a,g,h  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b Osservatorio Astronomico   (Italy)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^h Supernova Limited   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: stellar content; Planetary systems; Stars: low mass; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650254216     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/725/1/L19     Document Type: Article

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