Massive stars in the field and associations of the magellanic clouds: The upper mass limit, the initial mass function, and a critical test of main-sequence stellar evolutionary theory

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 438, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 188-217

  Massey, Philip ^a,d   Lang, Cornelia C ^b,e   DeGioia Eastwood, Kathleen ^b   Garmany, Catharine D ^c,d  

^a KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^e VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magellanic Clouds; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: early type; Stars: evolution; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944251273     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/175064     Document Type: Article

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