The luminosity function of OB associations in the galaxy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 476, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 144-165

  McKee, Christopher F ^a   Williams, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

H II regions; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444436255     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303587     Document Type: Article

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