Deriving star formation histories: Inverting Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams through a variational calculus maximum likelihood method

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 304, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 705-719

  Hernandez, X ^a,b,d   Valls Gabaud, David ^a,c   Gilmore, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hertzsprung Russell (HR) diagram; Methods: analytical; Methods: statistical; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POPULATION STATISTICS; STARS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAMS; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; METALLICITIES; METHODS:ANALYTICAL; METHODS:STATISTICAL; NONPARAMETRICS; PARAMETRIC SOLUTIONS; STARS FORMATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0042203189     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02102.x     Document Type: Article

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