The initial mass function (IMF) describes this distribution, and is currently based on an average from observations of stars in our Milky Way. The observed IMF has relatively few massive stars (i.e., ...

Here we use present-day eccentricities of the observed exoplanet population to reconstruct the initial mass function of exoplanets before the onset of dynamical instability. We developed a ...

For the first time, scientists used methods of network science to solve a fundamental astrophysical problem -- explaining the so-called "initial mass function", a distribution of stars by mass in ...

Abstract: We present here a theoretical model to account for the stellar initial mass function (IMF) as a result of the composite behaviour of the gas and dust distribution functions. Each of these ...

we determine the ratio between the observed, present-day mass of GCs and their initial stellar mass as a function of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). We also compute the mass of low-mass stars ...

Astronomers use an initial mass function (IMF) to calculate the numbers of different kinds of stars in any given galaxy, but what’s not been clear is whether the IMF applies to all galaxies of ...

We explore how the expulsion of gas from star-cluster forming cloud-cores due to supernova explosions affects the shape of the initial cluster mass function, that is, the mass function of star ...

Astronomers Measure Turnover in Initial Mass Function for the First Time lead image When a gas cloud collapses to form a star cluster, how many objects form, and what are their masses? Research ...