Evidence for two distinct stellar initial mass functions: Revisiting the effects of cluster dynamical evolution

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 770, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Zaritsky, Dennis ^a   Colucci, Janet E ^b   Pessev, Peter M ^c   Bernstein, Rebecca A ^b   Chandar, Rupali ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; stars: formation; stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878801528     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/121     Document Type: Article

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