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EAS Publications Series
Volume 24, 2007
CRAL-2006. Chemodynamics: From First Stars to Local Galaxies
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| Page(s) | 15 - 20 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007051 | |
| Published online | 21 April 2007 | |
E. Emsellem, H. Wozniak, G. Massacrier, J.-F. Gonzalez, J. Devriendt and N. Champavert (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 24 (2007) 15-20
Numerical Simulations of the Metallicity Distribution in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
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Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen;
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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and
Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Corresponding author: ripa@astro.rug.nl
Recent observations show that the number of stars with very low metallicities in the dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way is low, despite the low average metallicities of stars in these systems. We undertake numerical simulations of star formation and metal enrichment of dwarf galaxies in order to verify whether this result can be reproduced with ”standard” assumptions. The answer is likely to be negative, unless some selection bias against very low metallicity stars is present in the observations.
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