Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS observations of massive stellar clusters near the galactic center

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 525, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 750-758

  Figer, Donald F ^a,b   Kim, Sungsoo S ^a,c   Morris, Mark ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^d   Rich, R Michael ^a   McLean, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; Galaxy: stellar content; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: evolution; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033544261     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307937     Document Type: Article

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