Constraining the low-mass end of the initial mass function with gravitational lensing

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Volumn 409, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ferreras, Ignacio ^a   Saha, Prasenjit ^b   Leier, Dominik ^c   Courbin, Frédéric ^d   Falco, Emilio E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual: 2237+0305; Galaxies: stellar content; Gravitational lensing: strong; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952475860     PISSN: 17453933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00941.x     Document Type: Letter

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