Disk M dwarf luminosity function from hubble space telescope star counts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 465, Issue 2 PART I, 1996, Pages 759-768

  Gould, Andrew ^a,d   Bahcall, John N ^b   Flynn, Chris ^c,e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c NORDITA   (Denmark)

^d ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxy: structure; Gravitational lensing; Stars: late type; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344465457     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177460     Document Type: Article

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