The effect of star formation history on the inferred stellar initial mass function

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 636, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Elmegreen, Bruce G ^a   Scalo, John ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: starburst; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645655285     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497889     Document Type: Article

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