IMF biases created by binning and unresolved systems
Astrophysics
2015-05-13 v2
Abstract
I discuss two of the possible sources of biases in the determination of the IMF: binning and the existence of unresolved components. The first source is important for clusters with a small number of stars detected in a given mass bin while the second one is relevant for all clusters located beyond the immediate solar neighborhood. For both cases I will present results of numerical simulations and I will discuss strategies to correct for their effects. I also present a brief description of a third unrelated bias source.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.3778,
title = {IMF biases created by binning and unresolved systems},
author = {J. Maíz Apellániz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3778},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 10 figures, to appear in "Young massive clusters, initial conditions and environments", typo in author's name corrected