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Chemical enrichment in the faintest galaxies: The carbon and iron abundance spreads in the Bootes I dwarf spheroidal galaxy and the Segue 1 system

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2010

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Norris, John
Wyse, Rosemary F G
Gilmore, Gerard
Yong, David
Frebel, Anna
Wilkinson, Mark, I.
Belokurov, Vasily
Zucker, Daniel B.

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IOP Publishing

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We present an AAOmega spectroscopic study of red giants in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Boötes I (MV ∼ -6) and the Segue 1 system (MV ∼ -1.5), either an extremely low luminosity dwarf galaxy or an unusually extended globular cluster. Both Boötes I a

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Keywords: Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: individual (Boötes I, Segue 1); Galaxy: abundances; Stars: abundances

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/58885

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ANU Research Publications

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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10.1088/0004-637X/723/2/1632

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2037-12-31

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