Journal article
Quantifying the universality of the stellar initial mass function in old star clusters
Abstract
We present a new technique to quantify cluster-to-cluster variations in the observed present-day stellar mass functions of a large sample of star clusters. Our method quantifies these differences as a function of both the stellar mass and the total cluster mass, and offers the advantage that it is insensitive to the precise functional form of the mass function. We applied our technique to data taken from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) …
Authors
Leigh N; Umbreit S; Sills A; Knigge C; de Marchi G; Glebbeek E; Sarajedini A
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 422, No. 2, pp. 1592–1600
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
May 11, 2012
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20735.x
ISSN
0035-8711