L dwarfs and the substellar mass function

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 521, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 613-629

  Reid, I Neill ^a   Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^b   Liebert, J ^c   Burrows, A ^c   Gizis, J E ^d   Burgasser, A ^e   Dahn, C C ^f   Monet, D ^f   Cutri, R ^b   Beichman, C A ^b   Skrutskie, M ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033587883     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307589     Document Type: Article

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