Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7395, 2012, Pages 485-488

  Cappellari, Michele ^a   McDermid, Richard M ^b   Alatalo, Katherine ^c   Blitz, Leo ^c   Bois, Maxime ^d   Bournaud, Frédéric ^e   Bureau, M ^a   Crocker, Alison F ^f   Davies, Roger L ^a   Davis, Timothy A ^a,g   De Zeeuw, P T ^g,h   Duc, Pierre Alain ^e   Emsellem, Eric ^g,i   Khochfar, Sadegh ^j   Krajnoviä, Davor ^g   Kuntschner, Harald ^g   Lablanche, Pierre Yves ^g,i   Morganti, Raffaella ^k,l   Naab, Thorsten ^m   Oosterloo, Tom ^k,l   Sarzi, Marc ⁿ   Scott, Nicholas ^a,o   Serra, Paolo ^k   Weijmans, Anne Marie ^p   Young, Lisa M ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^k ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^o SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^q NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BOOK; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY; KINEMATICS; LIGHT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84860231948     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10972     Document Type: Article

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