The optical mass-luminosity relation at the end of the main sequence (0.08-0.20 M⊙)

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 512, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 864-873

  Henry, Todd J ^a   Franz, Otto G ^b   Wasserman, Lawrence H ^b   Benedict, G Fritz ^c   Shelus, Peter J ^c   Ianna, Philip A ^d   Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^e   McCarthy Jr , Donald W ^f  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Binaries: close; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: statistics; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040111654     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306793     Document Type: Article

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