Embedded clusters in molecular clouds

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2003, Pages 57-115

  Lada, Charles J ^a   Lada, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brown dwarfs; Circumstellar disks; Clusters; Initial mass function; Star formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242593775     PISSN: 00664146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.astro.41.011802.094844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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