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Galactic-field initial mass functions of massive stars
被引:429
作者:
Kroupa, P
[1
]
Weidner, C
[1
]
机构:
[1] Univ Kiel, Inst Theoret Phys & Astrophys, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
关键词:
galaxies : evolution;
galaxies : star clusters;
galaxies : stellar content;
Galaxy : stellar content;
stars : formation;
stars : luminosity function;
mass function;
D O I:
10.1086/379105
中图分类号:
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号:
0704 ;
摘要:
Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar initial mass function ( IMF) appears to be an invariant featureless Salpeter power law with an exponent alpha = 2.35 for stars more massive than a few M-.. A consensus has also emerged that most, if not all, stars form in stellar groups and star clusters and that the mass function of young star clusters in the solar neighborhood and in interacting galaxies can be described, over the mass range of a few 10 to 10(7) M-., as a power law with an exponent beta approximate to 2. These two results imply that galactic-field IMFs for early-type stars cannot, under any circumstances, be a Salpeter power law, but that they must have a steeper exponent, alpha(field) greater than or similar to 2.8. This has important consequences for the distribution of stellar remnants and for the chemodynamical and photometric evolution of galaxies.
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页码:1076 / 1078
页数:3
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