Evidence for a nonuniform initial mass function in the local universe

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 695, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 765-780

  Meurer, Gerhardt R ^a   Wong, O I ^b,c   Kim, J H ^a   Hanish, D J ^a   Heckman, T M ^a   Werk, J ^d   Bland Hawthorn, J ^e   Dopita, M A ^f   Zwaan, M A ^g   Koribalski, B ^h   Seibert, M ⁱ   Thilker, D A ^a   Ferguson, H C ^j   Webster, R L ^c   Putman, M E ^k   Knezek, P M ^l   Doyle, M T ^m   Drinkwater, M J ^m   Hoopes, C G ^a   Kilborn, V A ⁿ   Meyer, M ^o   Ryan Weber, E V ^p   Smith, R C ^q   Staveley Smith, L ^o   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^h CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁱ CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^j AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^k Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^l WIYN CONSORTIUM INC   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁿ SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^q CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: stellar content; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349339504     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/695/1/765     Document Type: Article

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