The panchromatic hubble andromeda treasury. IV. A probabilistic approach to inferring the high-mass stellar initial mass function and other power-law functions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 762, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Weisz, Daniel R ^a   Fouesneau, Morgan ^a   Hogg, David W ^b,c   Rix, Hans Walter ^c   Dolphin, Andrew E ^d   Dalcanton, Julianne J ^a   Foreman Mackey, Daniel T ^b   Lang, Dustin ^e   Clifton Johnson, L ^a   Beerman, Lori C ^a   Bell, Eric F ^f   Gordon, Karl D ^g   Gouliermis, Dimitrios ^c,h   Kalirai, Jason S ^g   Skillman, Evan D ⁱ   Williams, Benjamin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: star clusters: general; methods: statistical; stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871539267     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/762/2/123     Document Type: Article

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