The complete initial mass function down to the subsolar regime in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Hubble Space Telescope ACS observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 528-545

  Da Rio, Nicola ^a   Gouliermis, Dimitrios A ^a   Henning, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magellanic Clouds; Mass function; Open clusters and associations: individual (LH95); Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549097761     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/528     Document Type: Article

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