The arches cluster: Evidence for a truncated mass function?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 628, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages

  Stolte, Andrea ^a,b   Brandner, Wolfgang ^a   Grebel, Eva K ^a,c   Lenzen, Rainer ^a   Lagrange, Anne Marie ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; Open clusters and associations: individual (Arches) stars: luminosity function, mass function; Techniques: high angular resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144486213     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432909     Document Type: Article

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