A theory on the slope of the IMF

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article , Other literature type 01 Jan 1989 English Publisher:Springer Berlin HeidelbergJournal:International Astronomical Union Colloquium, volume 120, pages 129-129 (issn: 0252-9211,

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Authors: H. Zinnecker;

doi: 10.1007/bfb0114851 , 10.1017/s0252921100023587

A theory on the slope of the IMF

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Molecular clouds are clumpy, and the mass spectrum (dN/dM) of clumps scales with the clump mass M to the -1.5 power, as determined from CO observations of molecular clouds (Blitz 1988, Stutzki et al. 1989). The basic idea is to translate the mass spectrum of clumps into a mass spectrum of stars (that are assumed to form from these clumps) by virtue of a clump-star (i.e. initial-final) mass relation.

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