Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2 pages, 1 figure, uses kapproc.cls. Contributed poster presented at the conference on "IMF@50: The Stellar Initial Mass Funct
Scientific paper
As most if not all stars are born in stellar clusters the shape of the mass function of the field stars is not only determined by the initial mass function of stars (IMF) but also by the cluster mass function (CMF). In order to quantify this Monte-Carlo simulations were carried out by taking cluster masses randomly from a CMF and then populating these clusters with stars randomly taken from an IMF. Two cases were studied. Firstly the star masses were added randomly until the cluster mass was reached. Secondly a number of stars, given by the cluster mass divided by an estimate of the mean stellar mass and sorted by mass, were added until the desired cluster mass was reached. Both experiments verified the analytical results of Kroupa & Weidner (2003) that the resulting integrated stellar initial mass function is a folding of the IMF with the CMF and therefore steeper than the input IMF above 1 Msol.
Kroupa Pavel
Weidner Carsten
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