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The high-mass stellar IMF in different environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Pavel Kroupa
Pavel Kroupa*
Affiliation:
Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53121 Bonn, Germany email: pavel@astro.uni-bonn.de
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Abstract

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The massive-star IMF is found to be invariable. However, integrated IMFs probably depend on galactic mass.

Keywords

stars: luminosity functionmass functionstars: pre–main-sequence
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Highlights of Astronomy 14: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2006 , pp. 208
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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