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The Messenger 115
March 2004


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Stellar Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in Local Group Galaxies with the VLT: Kinematics and Calcium Triplet abundances

E. Tolstoy [1], M. Irwin [2], A. Cole [1], F. Fraternali [3,4], T. Szeifert [5], G. Marconi [5]

[1] Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; [2] Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; [3] ASTRON, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; [4] Dept of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; [5] European Southern Observatory

Abstract: The large collecting area and high-throughput multi-object instruments on the VLT make it possible to carry out detailed studies of stellar properties and distributions in environments well beyond our Galaxy.

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