Faint stars in the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy: Implications for the low-mass stellar initial mass function at high redshift

New Astronomy

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 395-433

  Wyse, Rosemary F G ^a,b,c   Gilmore, Gerard ^d   Houdashelt, Mark L ^a   Feltzing, Sofia ^e   Hebb, Leslie ^a   Gallagher III, John S ^f   Smecker Hane, Tammy A ^g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxies: Individual: Ursa Minor; Galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: Stellar content; Stars: Luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244436674     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(02)00156-2     Document Type: Article

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