On the mass-ratio distribution of spectroscopic binaries

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 397-405

  Goldberg, Dorit ^a   Mazeh, Tsevi ^a   Latham, David W ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: spectroscopic; Galaxy: halo; Methods: statistical; Stars: formation; Stars: fundamental parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043157549     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345990     Document Type: Article

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