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Paper: Faint Mass Functions in Globular Clusters from HST Observations
Volume: 92, Formation of the Galactic Halo. . . . Inside and Out
Page: 277
Authors: King, Ivan R.; Cool, Adrienne M.; Piotto, Giampaolo
Abstract: This is a preliminary report on mass functions of several globular clusters, down nearly to the level of 0.1{cal M}_sun. We describe the nature and the treatment of the Hubble Space Telescope observations from which the MFs are derived. The results, which suggest that the lower-mass stars are an important but not dominant contributor to the total mass, depend very much on the mass--luminosity relations used in transforming the observed luminosity functions into mass functions.
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