Is there a metallicity ceiling to form carbon stars? - A novel technique reveals a scarcity of C stars in the inner M31 disk

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 774, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Boyer, M L ^a,b   Girardi, L ^c   Marigo, P ^d   Williams, B F ^e   Aringer, B ^f   Nowotny, W ^f   Rosenfield, P ^e   Dorman, C E ^g   Guhathakurta, P ^g   Dalcanton, J J ^e   Melbourne, J L ^h   Olsen, K A G ⁱ   Weisz, D R ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b ORAU   (United States)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: individual (M31); stars: AGB and post AGB; stars: carbon; stars: late type

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882973256     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/774/1/83     Document Type: Article

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