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most citedThe Origin of the Stellar Mass Distribution and Multiplicity

49 citations · 66 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026

Uncovering the Origin of Slow Rotators among Intermediate-Mass Stars in the Star-Forming Cluster Trumpler 14

Khushboo K. Rao, Wen-Ping Chen, Hsiang-Yu Chen +2

Intermediate-mass (about 1.5-8 M) stars exhibit a wide range of rotation rates and have gained attention for their roles in the extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTO) se…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Cross-Survey Decade: A Call to Action

Gioia Rau, Robert Benjamin, Federica Bianco +24

By 2027, three flagship wide-field surveys will be operating simultaneously from ground and space, observing overlapping sky and representing more than $6 billion in US and Europea…

astro-ph.SR2026

Preferential alignment of Class 0, Class I protostellar disks in multiple systems across nine nearby molecular clouds

Cheng-Han Hsieh, Aleksey Generozov, Stella S. R. Offner +6

Protostellar disk orientations in multiple systems provide critical insights into the primary mechanisms that govern the formation of multiple-star systems, their subsequent dynami…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA High-resolution Observation of the HH46/47 Outflow/disk/envelope System

Heyi Zhang, Yichen Zhang, Héctor G. Arce +5

We present ( au) resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the HH 46/47 molecular outflow and its envelope-disk s…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 3 cited

The bound origin of low-mass stellar binaries

A. Generozov, S. S. R. Offner, K. M. Kratter +3

Most main sequence stars, unlike our Sun, belong to multiple systems with two or more stars. How and when these multiples come together and become bound is uncertain, since the ear…

astro-ph.GA2026

Fragmentation in the Serpens/Aquila Star-forming Region

Samuel Fielder, Helen Kirk, Michael Dunham +1

We present a population study of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 6 observations of the 100 most gravitationally unstable dense cores in Aquila using a sim…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Evolution of Star-Forming Gas in STARFORGE: From Clouds, to Cores, to Stars

Ananya Kaalva, Stella S. R. Offner, Nina Filippova +1

Star formation occurs within dense regions of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), however, exactly how gas collects and evolves to form individual stars and what role dense cores play r…

astro-ph.SR2026

Protostellar Outflows Shed Light on the Dominant Close Companion Star Formation Pathways

Ryan Sponzilli, Leslie Looney, John J. Tobin +11

Understanding the formation pathway for close-companion protostars is central to unraveling the processes that govern stellar multiplicity and very early star formation. We analyze…

astro-ph.GA2026

Digging into the Interior of Hot Cores with ALMA (DIHCA). VI. The Formation of Low-mass Multiple Systems in High-mass Cluster-forming Regions

Qiuyi Luo, Patricio Sanhueza, Stella S. R. Offner +14

Most stars form in multiple systems, with profound implications in numerous astronomical phenomena intrinsically linked to multiplicity. However, our knowledge about the process on…

astro-ph.GA2025

Detection of a septuple stellar system in formation via disk fragmentation

Shanghuo Li, Henrik Beuther, André Oliva +15

Stellar multiple systems play a pivotal role in cluster dynamics and stellar evolution, leading to intense astronomical phenomena like X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts, Type Ia sup…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

CAMPOS II. The onset of protostellar disk substructures and planet formation

Cheng-Han Hsieh, Héctor G. Arce, María José Maureira +6

The 1.3 mm CAMPOS survey has resolved 90 protostellar disks with ~15 au resolution across the Ophiuchus, Corona Australis, and Chamaeleon star-forming regions. To address the funda…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

The Origin of the Stellar Mass Distribution and Multiplicity

Yueh-Ning Lee, Stella S. R. Offner, Patrick Hennebelle +5

In this chapter, we review some historical understanding and recent advances on the Initial Mass Function (IMF) and the Core Mass Function (CMF), both in terms of observations and…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 4 cited

The Luminosity Problem: Testing Theories of Star Formation

C. F. McKee, S. S. R. Offner

Low-mass protostars are less luminous than expected. This luminosity problem is important because the observations appear to be inconsistent with some of the basic premises of star…