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The bulge luminosity functions in the MSX infrared bands

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We use an inversion technique to derive the luminosity functions of the Galactic bulge from point source counts extracted from the Midcourse Space Experiment's Point Source Catalog (version 1.2).

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012039,
  title  = {The bulge luminosity functions in the MSX infrared bands},
  author = {M. Lopez-Corredoira and M. Cohen and P. L. Hammersley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012039},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures, to be published in A&A