The contribution of red dwarfs and white dwarfs to the halo dark matter

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 427-435

  Torres, S ^a,b   Camacho, J ^a   Isern, J ^b,c   Garcia Berro E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: structure; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; REUSABILITY; STARS;

CONFIDENCE LEVEL (CL); DARK MATTER (DM); DWARF POPULATION; GALACTIC HALO; LOW-MASS; MASS BUDGETS; MICRO-LENSING; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATORS; OPTICAL DEPTHS; SOLAR MASSES; SUB-STELLAR OBJECTS; SYNTHETIC POPULATIONS; WHITE DWARF (WD);

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 47249165136     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809805     Document Type: Article

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