Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function

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Jan 1997

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Communications of the Konkoly Observatory, No. 100 (Vol. XII, 2), p. 341-362 (1997)

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A model is developed for the origin of the stellar IMF, that contains a dependence on the average physical parameters (temperature, density, velocity dispersion) of the large scale site of star formation. The model is based on recent numerical experiments of highly supersonic random flows (Nordlund & Padoan 1996). The statistical properties of the density field arising from the numerical experiment are in excellent agreement with those of the density field in dark clouds, as inferred from stellar extinction determinations, using a new method (Padoan, Jones & Nordlund 1996). It is shown that a Miller-Scalo like IMF is naturally produced by the model for the typical physical conditions in molecular clouds. A more "massive" IMF in starbursts is also predicted.

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