The variation of integrated star initial mass functions among galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 625, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 754-762

  Weidner, C ^a   Kroupa, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: stellar content; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544463404     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429867     Document Type: Article

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