Kinematical determination of the luminosity function in the solar neighborhood
The luminosity function is not only crucial to know the stellar density distribution in space, and thus to know the structure of the Galaxy; it also allows the determination of the stellar mass function using the mass-luminosity relationship. The luminosity and mass functions are crucial to understand star formation and the evolution of the Milky
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