Still, this new, best-yet census of our interstellar neighborhood does extend our understanding of the initial mass function. Before, it wasn’t clear if objects had a mass cutoff at the lower end.

Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...

Zaninetti, L. (2013) The Initial Mass Function Modeled by a Left Truncated Beta Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal, 765, 128. Login. Login ...

A fundamental open question is therefore understanding how stars, which are finite-sized bodies, can emerge from a scale-free ISM, with a birth mass distribution (called the Initial Mass Function, or ...

In this paper we show the results of a large set of N-body simulations modelling the evolution of globular clusters driven by relaxation, stellar evolution and disc shocking, and including the effects ...

We have combined optical to near-infrared line-strength indices in order to infer, out to 1.5 R e, the initial mass function (IMF) of the nearby relic massive galaxy NGC 1277. The IMF of this galaxy ...