The initial mass function toward the low-mass end in the large magellanic cloud with hubble space telescope WFPC2 observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 623, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 846-859

  Gouliermis, D ^a   Brandner, W ^a   Henning, Th ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Magellanic Clouds; Stars: evolution; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444371063     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428882     Document Type: Article

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