The substellar mass function: A bayesian approach

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 625, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 385-397

  Allen, Peter R ^a   Koerner, David W ^b   Reid, I Neill ^c   Trilling, David E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: evolution; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144472638     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429548     Document Type: Article

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