Wolf-Rayet galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The metallicity dependence of the initial mass function

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 655, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 851-862

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Kong, Xu ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Zhou, Hong Yan ^a   Cheng, Fu Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: starburst; Stars: Wolf Rayet

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847178325     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510231     Document Type: Article

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