Galactic-field initial mass functions of massive stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 598, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 1076-1078

  Kroupa, Pavel ^a   Weidner, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: stellar content; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348230596     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379105     Document Type: Article

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