The low end of the initial mass function in young large magellanic cloud clusters. I. The case of R136

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 533, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 203-214

  Sirianni, Marco ^a,b   Nota, Antonella ^b,c   Leitherer, Claus ^b   De Marchi, Guido ^d   Clampin, Mark ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c Astrophysics Division   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Magellanic Clouds; Stars : luminosity function, mass function; Stars : pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034629635     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308628     Document Type: Article

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