The lower mass function of young open clusters
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We report new estimates for the lower mass function of 5 young open clusters spanning an age range from 80 to 150 Myr. In all studied clusters, the mass function across the stellar/substellar boundary (~0.072 Mo) and up to 0.4 Mo is consistent with a power-law with an exponent alpha of -0.5 +/- 0.1, i.e., dN/dM ~ M**(-0.5).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209178,
title = {The lower mass function of young open clusters},
author = {J. Bouvier and E. Moraux and J. R. Stauffer and D. Barrado y Navascues and J. -C. Cuillandre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209178},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures