The metallicity gradient as a tracer of history and structure: the Magellanic Clouds and M33 galaxies

M.-R. L. Cioni

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912138

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Issue		A&A Volume 506, Number 3, November II 2009


Page(s)		1137 - 1146
Section		Extragalactic astronomy
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912138
Published online		15 September 2009

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