The M/L* ratio of young star clusters in galactic mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 620, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages

  Boily, C M ^a   Lancon, A ^a   Deiters, S ^b   Heggie, D C ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Methods: numerical; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944362268     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428398     Document Type: Article

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