Hubble space telescope observations of the white dwarf cooling sequence of M4

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 551-576

  Hansen, Brad M S ^a   Richer, Harvey B ^b   Fahlman, Greg G ^b,c   Stetson, Peter B ^d   Brewer, James ^b   Currie, Thayne ^b   Gibson, Brad K ^e   Ibata, Rodrigo ^f   Rich, R Michael ^a   Shara, Michael M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Canada France Hawai'i Telescope C   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Globular clusters: individual (M4); Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Population II; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944433894     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424832     Document Type: Article

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