Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
9 pages, 3 figures, invited review to appear in the proceeding sof IAUS 270 on Computational Star Formation, eds: J. Alves, B.
Scientific paper
It is possible to extract, from the observations, distribution functions of the birth dynamical properties of a stellar population, and to also infer that these are quite invariant to the physical conditions of star formation. The most famous example is the stellar IMF, and the initial binary population (IBP) seems to follow suit. A compact mathematical formulation of the IBP can be derived from the data. It has three broad parts: the IBP of the dominant stellar population (0.08-2 M_sol), the IBP of the more-massive stars and the IBP of brown dwarfs. These three mass regimes correspond to different physical regimes of star formation but not to structure in the IMF. With this formulation of the IBP it becomes possible to synthesise the stellar-population of whole galaxies.
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