The neutron star mass distribution

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 778, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kiziltan, Bülent ^a,b   Kottas, Athanasios ^c   De Yoreo, Maria ^c   Thorsett, Stephen E ^b,d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

binaries: general; methods: statistical; pulsars: general; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: neutron; stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887571988     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/778/1/66     Document Type: Article

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