Abundances in the Virgo Spiral Galaxies
Abstract
oxygen abundances substantially higher than in comparable field galaxies. Possible causes include stripping of the outer hydrogen disk and curtailment of cosmological infall in the cluster environment.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- August 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132907
- Bibcode:
- 1991PASP..103..916S
- Keywords:
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- Abundance;
- H Ii Regions;
- Oxygen;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Virgo Galactic Cluster;
- Chemical Evolution;
- Irregular Galaxies;
- Astrophysics;
- GALAXIES: LOCAL GROUP;
- GALAXIES: INTERSTELLAR MATTER