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Hubble Space Telescope observations of Baade's window

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

W. A. Baum ,
R. M. Light ,
J. Holtzman ,
D. Hunter ,
T. Kreidl ,
E. J. O'Neil Jr.  and
E. J. Groth
W. A. Baum
Affiliation:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
R. M. Light
Affiliation:
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
J. Holtzman
Affiliation:
Lowell Obs., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
D. Hunter
Affiliation:
Lowell Obs., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
T. Kreidl
Affiliation:
Lowell Obs., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
E. J. O'Neil Jr.
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak Nat Obs., Tucson, AZ 85726, USA

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This is a status report on a continuing program using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide–Field Camera (WFC) to probe the stellar population of the Galactic bulge to fainter magnitudes. We seek the mean age of the stars and the initial mass function (IMF). Galactic bulge stars offer the only opportunity to investigate the IMF of a super metal–rich population. They are 100 times closer than the next nearest sample.

Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 153: Galactic Bulges , 1993 , pp. 289 - 290
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993 

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