Hubble space telescope NICMOS observations of the embedded cluster in NGC 2024: Constraints on the initial mass function and binary fraction

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 4 1774, 2003, Pages 1665-1676

  Liu, Wilson M ^a   Meyer, Michael R ^a   Cotera, Angela S ^a   Young, Erick T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 2024); Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344926385     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377620     Document Type: Article

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