The palomar/keck adaptive optics survey of young solar analogs: Evidence for a universal companion mass function

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-109

  Metchev, Stanimir A ^a,c   Hillenbrand, Lynne A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Brown dwarfs; Mass function; Stars: imaging; Stars: low mass; Stars: luminosity function

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650358661     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/181/1/62     Document Type: Article

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