Paleochemistry of Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.9311c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #93.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1493

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We have begun a program to measure the metallicity distribution functions of the intermediate-age and old stellar populations in a sample of Local Group dwarf irregular galaxies. Existing data on the nebular abundances in HII regions and the stellar abundances in bright supergiants provide detailed information on the present-day chemistry of dwarf galaxies; our data provide a temporal dimension to this study.
Using the FORS2 spectrograph at ESO's Very Large Telescope, we have obtained medium-resolution spectra in the near-infrared calcium II triplet region for dozens of individual red giants in each of four galaxies: IC 1613, NGC 6822, WLM, and Phoenix. These data will provide strong new constraints on the evolutionary histories of small, isolated galaxies, shed light on the development of the mass-metallicity relation, and elucidate spatial and temporal patterns of chemical evolution within galaxies.
AAC is supported by a fellowship from The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA).

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