Metallicity distribution functions, radial velocities, and alpha element abundances in three off-axis bulge fields

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 765, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Christian I ^a   Rich, R Michael ^a   Kobayashi, Chiaki ^b   Kunder, Andrea ^c   Pilachowski, Catherine A ^d   Koch, Andreas ^e   De Propris, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: stellar content; stars: abundances; stars: general; stars: Population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874965291     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/765/2/157     Document Type: Article

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