The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey - V. The metallicity distribution function of the Galactic halo

T. Schörck; N. Christlieb; J. G. Cohen; T. C. Beers; S. Shectman; I. Thompson; A. McWilliam; M. S. Bessell; J. E. Norris; J. Meléndez; S. Ramírez; D. Haynes; P. Cass; M. Hartley; K. Russell; F. Watson; F.-J. Zickgraf; B. Behnke; C. Fechner; B. Fuhrmeister; P. S. Barklem; B. Edvardsson; A. Frebel; L. Wisotzki; D. Reimers

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Issue		A&A Volume 507, Number 2, November IV 2009


Page(s)		817 - 832
Section		Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200810925
Published online		15 September 2009

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