The binary frequency of r-process-element-enhanced metal-poor stars and its implications: Chemical tagging in the primitive halo of the milky way

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 743, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hansen, Terese ^a   Andersen, Johannes ^a,c   Nordström, Birgitta ^a   Buchhave, Lars A ^a,d   Beers, Timothy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

binaries: spectroscopic; Galaxy: halo; stars: Population II; techniques: radial velocities

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355188301     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/743/1/L1     Document Type: Article

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