A deep optical luminosity function of NGC 6712 with the VLT: Evidence for severe tidal disruption

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  De Marchi, Guido ^a   Leibundgut, Bruno ^a   Paresce, Francesco ^a   Pulone, Luigi ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: globular clusters: general; Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: NGC 6712; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013328095     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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