Wednesday, January 11, 2012

1110.1186 (Laura Magrini et al.)

Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae: tracers of the chemical evolution of nearby galaxies    [PDF]

Laura Magrini, Letizia Stanghellini, Denise R. Goncalves
The study of the chemical composition of Planetary Nebulae in external galaxies is of paramount importance in the fields of stellar evolution and of the chemical enrichment history of galaxies. In the last years a number of spectroscopic studies with 6-8m-class telescopes have been devoted to this subject improving our knowledge of, among other, the time-evolution of the radial metallicity gradient in disk galaxies, the chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies, and the stellar evolution at low metallicity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1186

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