Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985apj...299...74f&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 299, Dec. 1, 1985, p. 74-84. Research supported by Zonta International, Car
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Blue Stars, Galactic Evolution, Star Distribution, Stellar Luminosity, Supergiant Stars, Early Stars, Galactic Structure, Magellanic Clouds, Mass To Light Ratios, Stellar Magnitude
Scientific paper
The upper end of the stellar luminosity function is presented for a sample of nearby late-type galaxies. The galaxies in the sample include M33, NGC 2403, M81, NGC 300, Ho IX, Sextans A, and Leo A, supplemented with data from the literature for NGC 6822, the LMC, and the SMC. Luminosity functions were constructed including only the very bluest stars in each galaxy. The advantages of this restriction of the sample are that foreground contamination from our own Galaxy is virtually eliminated, and the inclusion of evolved stars in the parent galaxy itself is minimized. It is found that the slope of the luminosity function shows little variation from galaxy to galaxy, and no dependence of the slope with metallicity is evident.
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