Inverting color-magnitude diagrams to access precise star cluster parameters: A bayesian approach

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 645, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 1436-1447

  Von Hippel, Ted ^a   Jefferys, William H ^a   Scott, James ^b   Stein, Nathan ^a   Winget, D E ^a   DeGennaro, Steven ^a   Dam, Albert ^c   Jeffery, Elizabeth ^a  

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

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: evolution; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746925978     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504369     Document Type: Article

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