Low-mass X-ray binaries indicate a top-heavy stellar initial mass function in ultracompact dwarf galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dabringhausen, Jörg ^a   Kroupa, Pavel ^a   Pflamm Altenburg, Jan ^a   Mieske, Steffen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: starburst; galaxies: stellar content; stars: luminosity function, mass function; stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857249886     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/72     Document Type: Article

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