A multi-coloured survey of NGC 253 with XMM-Newton: Testing the methods used for creating luminosity functions from low-count data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 388, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 849-862

  Barnard, R ^a   Greening, L Shaw ^a   Kolb, U ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual: NGC 253; X rays: binaries; X rays: general

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SOURCES; ESTIMATION; LUMINANCE; STARS; SURVEYS; X RAY APPARATUS;

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 253; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; NGC 253; X-RAY GENERAL; X-RAY LUMINOSITY; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAYS: BINARIES; XMM-NEWTON; XMM-NEWTON OBSERVATIONS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 47649115221     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13447.x     Document Type: Article

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