Hubble Space Telescope observations of galactic globular cluster cores. II. NGC 6273 and the problem of horizontal-branch gaps

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1727-1737

  Piotto, G ^a   Zoccali, M ^a   King, I R ^b   Djorgovski, S G ^c   Sosin, C ^b   Rich, R M ^d   Meylan, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: Individual (NGC 6273 = M19); Stars: Low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: Luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000170772     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301031     Document Type: Article

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