Erratum: The age of the Milky Way inner halo (Nature ((2012) 486 (90-92) DOI: 10.1038/nature11062);The age of the Milky Way inner halo

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7401, 2012, Pages 90-92

  Kalirai, Jason S ^a,b  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84861947945     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11343     Document Type: Erratum

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