Stochastic star formation and a (nearly) uniform stellar initial mass function

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 741, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Fumagalli, Michele ^a   Da Silva, Robert L ^a   Krumholz, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: star formation; galaxies: statistics; galaxies: stellar content; stars: statistics; ultraviolet: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80655124803     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/741/2/L26     Document Type: Article

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