Does the distribution of clump masses determine the Imf?

Whitworth, Anthony Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5486 2003. Does the distribution of clump masses determine the Imf? Presented at: 221st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Sydney, Australia, 22-25 July 2003. Published in: Burton, Michael G., Jayawardhana, Ray and Bourke, Tyler L. eds. Star Formation at High Angular Resolution: Proceedings of the 221st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held During the Iau General Assembly XXV, Sydney, Australia, 22-25 July 2003. IAU Symposium (221) San Francisco: International Astronomical Union, p. 221.

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Abstract

We present a simple theory for the evolution of turblence in the interstellar medium which explains why the mass function for clumps in star-forming molecular clouds has a knee around 0.5 M⊙ and hence potentially why the Initial Mass Function for star formation becomes much shallower below this mass

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Additional Information:	Poster meeting abstract.
Publisher:	International Astronomical Union
ISBN:	9781583811610
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 10:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/68776

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