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This work is devoted to improving empirical mass-luminosity relations and mass-metallicity-luminosity relation for low mass stars. For these stars, observational data in the mass-luminosity plane or the mass-metallicity-luminosity space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fang Xia , Shulin Ren , Yanning Fu

Low-mass galaxies are the building blocks of massive galaxies in the framework of hierarchical structure formation. To enable detailed studies of galactic ecosystems in dwarf galaxies by spatially resolving different galactic components, we…

Residual-gas expulsion after cluster formation has recently been shown to leave an imprint in the low-mass present-day stellar mass function (PDMF) which allowed the estimation of birth conditions of some Galactic globular clusters (GCs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa , Jörg Dabringhausen , Marcel S. Pawlowski

Over a quarter of white dwarfs have photospheric metal pollution, which is evidence for recent accretion of exoplanetary material. While a wide range of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this pollution, there are currently few…

Observations of mergers of multi-compact object systems offer insights to the formation processes of massive stars in globular clusters. Simulations of stellar clusters, may be used to understand and interpret observations. Simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-27 Indulekha Kavila , Megha Viswambharan

The initial mass function (IMF) is one of the most important functions in astrophysics because it is key to reconstructing the cosmological matter cycle, understanding the formation of super-massive black holes, and deciphering the light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-30 Pavel Kroupa , Eda Gjergo , Tereza Jerabkova , Zhiqiang Yan

We use N-body simulations to model the 12 Gyr evolution of a suite of star clusters with identical initial stellar mass functions over a range of initial cluster masses, sizes, and orbits. Our models reproduce the distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Jeremy J. Webb , Nathan W. C. Leigh

We present a systematic halo-independent analysis of available Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) direct detection data within the framework of Inelastic Dark Matter (IDM). We show that, when the smallest number of assumptions is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-03 Stefano Scopel , KookHyun Yoon

Measuring the masses of companions to single-line spectroscopic binary stars is (in general) not possible because of the unknown orbital plane inclination. Even when the mass of the visible star can be measured, only a lower limit can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jeff J. Andrews , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Marcel A. Agüeros

We present a uniform analysis of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) from integrated light spectroscopy of 15 compact stellar systems (11 globular clusters in M31 and 4 ultra compact dwarfs in the Virgo cluster, UCDs) and two brightest…

There has been much recent work dedicated to exploring secondary correlations in the mass-metallicity relation, with significant dependence on both the star formation rate and HI content being demonstrated. Previously, a paucity of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 M. S. Bothwell , R. Maiolino , Y. Peng , C. Cicone , H. Griffith , J. Wagg

We have studied the evolution of globular cluster systems (GCS) in elliptical galaxies with a power-law initial GCS mass function (GCMF) ($f(M) \propto M^{-\alpha}$) similar to that predicted by some theoretical studies of globular clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Vesperini

In the framework of Milgromian dynamics (MOND), galaxy clusters are known to exhibit a residual missing mass problem, with the baryonic mass falling short of the dynamical mass by about a factor of two. The baryon content of clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Dong Zhang , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa

Most structural and evolutionary properties of galaxies strongly rely on the stellar initial mass function (IMF), namely the distribution of the stellar mass formed in each episode of star formation. As the IMF shapes the stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-31 Jiadong Li , Chao Liu , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaoting Fu , Jiao Li , Zhi-Qiang Yan

Recent results suggest that the initial mass function (IMF) of globular clusters (GCs) is metallicity and density dependent. Here it is studied how this variation affects the initial masses and the numbers of core collapse supernovae…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Henriette Wirth , Pavel Kroupa , Jaroslav Haas , Tereza Jerabkova , Zhiqiang Yan , Ladislav Šubr

The white dwarf mass distribution has been studied primarily at two extremes: objects that presumably evolved as single stars and members of close binaries that likely underwent substantial interaction. This work considers the intermediate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sahar Shahaf

Much of our knowledge of galaxies comes from analysing the radiation emitted by their stars. It depends on the stellar initial mass function (IMF) describing the distribution of stellar masses when the population formed. Consequently…

We present a new technique for the determination of the low-mass slope ($\alpha_1$; $M_* < 0.5 M_{\odot}$) of the present day stellar mass function (PDMF) using the pixel space fitting of integrated light spectra. It can be used to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nikolay Podorvanyuk , Igor Chilingarian , Ivan Katkov

This paper provides collapses of massive, fully convective, and non-rotating white dwarfs (WDs) formed by accretion-induced collapse or merger-induced collapse and the subsequent explosions with the general relativistic neutrino-radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Masamitsu Mori , Ryo Sawada , Yudai Suwa , Ataru Tanikawa , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kohta Murase

Measuring the mass-radius relation of individual white dwarfs is an empirically challenging task that has been performed for only a few dozen stars. We measure the white dwarf mass-radius relation using gravitational redshifts and radii of…