Variations in the Milky Way's Stellar Mass Function at [Fe/H] < -1

Jiadong Li, Hans-Walter Rix, Yuan-Sen Ting +14

We present the first determination of the Galactic stellar mass function (MF) for low-mass stars (0.2-0.5 M_sun) at metallicities [Fe/H] < -1. A sample of ~53,000 stars was selecte…