Dissolution is the solution: On the reduced mass-to-light ratios of Galactic globular clusters

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 500, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 785-799

  Kruijssen, J M D ^a,b   Mieske, S ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Star clusters; Galaxy: Globular clusters: General; Galaxy: Stellar content

Indexed keywords

BAND MASS; CLUSTER MODELS; DRIVING MECHANISM; DYNAMICAL EFFECTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENERGY EQUIPARTITION; EXPECTED VALUES; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; GALAXY: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL; GALAXY: STELLAR CONTENT; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; LOW-MASS; LOW-MASS STARS; MASS FUNCTIONS; MASS SEGREGATION; METALLICITIES; ORBITAL PARAMETERS; STELLAR EVOLUTIONS; STELLAR MASS; STELLAR POPULATIONS; TIME-SCALE; TIME-SCALES;

GALAXIES; ORBITAL LABORATORIES; STARS;

DISSOLUTION;

EID: 67649563284     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811453     Document Type: Article

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