On the upper limit on stellar masses in the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster R136

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 590-594

  Koen, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Galaxies: stellar content; Magellanic Clouds; Methods: statistical; Stars: early type; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

STARS;

GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; MAGELLANIC CLOUDS; MASS FUNCTIONS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; STARS:EARLY TYPE; STELLAR MASS; UPPER LIMITS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33645091891     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09739.x     Document Type: Article

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