Ultra-deep hubble space telescope imaging of the small magellanic cloud: The initial mass function of stars with M ≲ 1 M

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 763, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kalirai, Jason S ^a,b   Anderson, Jay ^a   Dotter, Aaron ^a   Richer, Harvey B ^c   Fahlman, Gregory G ^d   Hansen, Brad M S ^e   Hurley, Jarrod ^f   Reid, I Neill ^a   Rich, R Michael ^e   Shara, Michael M ^g  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: photometry; galaxies: stellar content; Magellanic Clouds; methods: data analysis; methods: statistical; stars: luminosity function, mass function; techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872700463     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/110     Document Type: Article

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