Stars throw their weight in old galaxies

Nate Bastian ()
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Nate Bastian: Nate Bastian is at the Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Technische Universität München, Garching 85748, Germany.

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7395, 462-463

Abstract: The observation that old, massive galaxies have a larger fraction of low-mass stars than their younger, lower-mass counterparts adds to mounting evidence that star formation may have been different in the early Universe. See Letter p.485

Date: 2012
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