The maximum stellar mass, star-cluster formation and composite stellar populations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 365, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1333-1347

  Weidner, Carsten ^a,b   Kroupa, Pavel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Rhine Stellar Dynamical Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: stellar content; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; GALAXIES;

GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; INITIAL MASS; MASS FUNCTIONS; MASSIVE STARS; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS FORMATION; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION;

STARS;

EID: 33645056684     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09824.x     Document Type: Article

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