Comparison between observed and theoretical Red Giant Branch luminosity functions of galactic globular clusters

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 358, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 943-955

  Zoccali, M ^a   Piotto, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxy: globular clusters: general; Stars: distances; Stars: evolution; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244215841     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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