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An Apparent Gap in Stellar Mass Distributions around 0.7 Solar Masses and a Possible Explanation

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Mass functions for samples of white dwarf stars and for a large heterogeneous sample of nearby stars appear to have unexplained deficits in the range of 0.70 to 0.75 Solar Masses. The existence, or non-existence, of this anomaly constitutes a definitive test of a fractal cosmological model that inherently predicts a gap in stellar mass functions at about 0.73 Solar Masses.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011480,
  title  = {An Apparent Gap in Stellar Mass Distributions around 0.7 Solar Masses and a Possible Explanation},
  author = {Robert L. Oldershaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011480},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages with 4 figures