Star formation history of a young super-star cluster in NGC 4038/39: Direct detection of low-mass pre-main sequence stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 710, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1746-1754

  Greissl, Julia ^a   Meyer, Michael R ^a,b   Christopher, Micol H ^c   Scoville, Nick Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (NGC 4038, NGC 4039); Galaxies: interactions; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149149396     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1746     Document Type: Article

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