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On the variation of the initial mass function [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2001
A universal initial mass function (IMF) is not intuitive, but so far no convincing evidence for a variable IMF exists. The detection of systematic variations of the IMF with star-forming conditions would be the Rosetta Stone for star formation. In
Pavel Kroupa
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Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function [PDF]

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2003
We review recent determinations of the present‐day mass function (PDMF) and initial mass function (IMF) in various components of the Galaxy—disk, spheroid, young, and globular clusters—and in conditions characteristic of early star formation.
G. Chabrier
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The Stellar Initial Mass Function

, 1999
The current status of both the observational evidence and the theory of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is reviewed, with particular attention to the two basic, apparently universal features shown by all observations of nearby stellar systems: (1) a characteristic stellar mass of the order of one solar mass, and (2) a power-law decline of the ...
Richard B. Larson
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The Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center [PDF]

, 2000
The Galactic Center contains the most massive young clusters in the Galaxy and serves as the closest example of a massive starburst region. Our recent results suggest that the Galactic Center environment produces massive clusters with relatively flat initial mass functions, as might be expected on theoretical grounds.
Donald F. Figer
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The Role of Magnetic Fields in Setting the Star Formation Rate and the Initial Mass Function [PDF]

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2019
Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the smallest size scales.
Mark R. Krumholz, Mark R. Krumholz, Christoph Federrath, Christoph Federrath   +3 more
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The Unusual Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2018
As a young massive cluster in the central molecular zone, the Arches cluster is a valuable probe of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in the extreme Galactic center environment.
M. Hosek, Jessica R. Lu, Jay Anderson, F. Najarro, A. Ghez, M. Morris, W. Clarkson, Saundra M Albers   +7 more
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The Initial Mass Function in Clusters [PDF]

, 2006
to be published in "Massive Stars: From Pop III and GRBs to the Milky Way," eds. M. Livio and Eva Villaver, Cambridge Univ. Press, in press, from a conference held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, May 8-11, 2006.
Bruce G. Elmegreen
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A Discontinuity in the Low‐Mass Initial Mass Function [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2007
The origin of brown dwarfs (BDs) is still an unsolved mystery. While the standard model describes the formation of BDs and stars in a similar way recent data on the multiplicity properties of stars and BDs show them to have different binary distribution functions.
Ingo Thies, Pavel Kroupa
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The Initial Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20 pc Census of ∼3600 Stars and Brown Dwarfs

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
A complete accounting of nearby objects—from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors down to low-mass brown dwarfs—is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of trigonometric parallax determinations from Gaia, ground-based surveys, and Spitzer ...
J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Christopher R. Gelino, Yadukrishna Raghu, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Steven D. Schurr, Kevin Apps, Adam C. Schneider, Aaron M. Meisner, Marc J. Kuchner, Dan Caselden, R. L. Smart, S. L. Casewell, Roberto Raddi, Aurora Kesseli, Nikolaj Stevnbak Andersen, Edoardo Antonini, Paul Beaulieu, Thomas P. Bickle, Martin Bilsing, Raymond Chieng, Guillaume Colin, Sam Deen, Alexandru Dereveanco, Katharina Doll, Hugo A. Durantini Luca, Anya Frazer, Jean Marc Gantier, Léopold Gramaize, Kristin Grant, Leslie K. Hamlet, Hiro Higashimura, Michiharu Hyogo, Peter A. Jałowiczor, Alexander Jonkeren, Martin Kabatnik, Frank Kiwy, David W. Martin, Marianne N. Michaels, William Pendrill, Celso Pessanha Machado, Benjamin Pumphrey, Austin Rothermich, Rebekah Russwurm, Arttu Sainio, John Sanchez, Fyodor Theo Sapelkin-Tambling, Jörg Schümann, Karl Selg-Mann, Harshdeep Singh, Andres Stenner, Guoyou Sun, Christopher Tanner, Melina Thévenot, Maurizio Ventura, Nikita V. Voloshin, Jim Walla, Zbigniew Wędracki, Jose I. Adorno, Christian Aganze, Katelyn N. Allers, Hunter Brooks, Adam J. Burgasser, Emily Calamari, Thomas Connor, Edgardo Costa, Peter R. Eisenhardt, Jonathan Gagné, Roman Gerasimov, Eileen C. Gonzales, Chih-Chun Hsu, Rocio Kiman, Guodong Li, Ryan Low, Eric Mamajek, Blake M. Pantoja, Mark Popinchalk, Jon M. Rees, Daniel Stern, Genaro Suárez, Christopher Theissen, Chao-Wei Tsai, Johanna M. Vos, David Zurek, (The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Collaboration)   +85 more
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The stellar initial mass function [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2006
Abstract The IMF UNIVERSALITY HYPOTHESIS cannot be discarded despite the existence of the CLUSTER IMF THEOREM. This means that the currently existing star-formation theory fails to describe the stellar outcome. The IGIMF THEOREM, however, predicts a variation of galaxy-wide IMFs in dependence of the galaxy's star-formation rate even if the IMF ...
Pavel Kroupa
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