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Globular Cluster Luminosity Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Pierre Demarque
Pierre Demarque*
Affiliation:
Yale University Observatory

Abstract

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The use of luminosity functions in the following areas is reviewed: (a) the determination of the helium content and ages of the globular clusters; (b) the testing of stellar structure theory; and (c) the determination of the initial mass function of globular clusters.

Type
Chapter II. Review Papers on Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 126: The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies , 1988 , pp. 121 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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