A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies
A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies
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The lesser lights of nearby galaxies
The bulk of the stellar population is comprised of dwarf stars. This fact is reflected in the stellar initial mass function (IMF), which describes the mass distribution of stars at the time of their formation. The IMF is reasonably well constrained in the disk of the Milky Way, but we have little direct infor...
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A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_876245693
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/nature09578
