The Initial Mass Function of Stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Observations and theory of the IMF are briefly reviewed. Slight variations have been observed, although they are difficult to prove unambiguously. Most detailed theoretical models reproduce the IMF, but because they use different assumptions and conditions, there is no real convergence of explanations yet.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0605517,
title = {The Initial Mass Function of Stars},
author = {Bruce G. Elmegreen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0605517},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, from the 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, 1-5 November 2005, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, ed. H.-W. Lee