IMF biases created by binning and unresolved systems

Details IMF biases created by binning and unresolved systems IMF biases created by binning and unresolved systems

2008-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3778v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 10 figures, to appear in "Young massive clusters, initial conditions and environments", typo in author's name correct

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I discuss two of the possible sources of biases in the determination of the IMF: binning and the existence of unresolved components. The first source is important for clusters with a small number of stars detected in a given mass bin while the second one is relevant for all clusters located beyond the immediate solar neighborhood. For both cases I will present results of numerical simulations and I will discuss strategies to correct for their effects. I also present a brief description of a third unrelated bias source.

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