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most citedEvidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity

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astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Hidden Neutron-capture Elemental Abundance Differences among APOGEE-identified Chemical Doppelgängers

Catherine Manea, Melissa Ness, Keith Hawkins +9

Grouping stars by chemical similarity has the potential to reveal the Milky Way's evolutionary history. The APOGEE stellar spectroscopic survey has the resolution and sensitivity f…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

A possible solution to the Milky Way's binary-deficient retrograde stellar population. Evidence that Centauri has formed in an extreme starburst

M. Marks, P. Kroupa, J. Dabringhausen

Context. The fraction of field binaries on retrograde orbits about the Milky Way is significantly lower compared to its prograde counterpart. Chemical and dynamical evidence sugges…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

BiPoS1 -- a computer programme for the dynamical processing of the initial binary star population

J. Dabringhausen, M. Marks, P. Kroupa

The first version of the Binary Population Synthesizer (BiPoS1) is made publicly available. It allows to efficiently calculate binary distribution functions after the dynamical pro…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 8 cited

Using binary statistics in Taurus-Auriga to distinguish between brown dwarf formation processes

M. Marks, E. L. Martín, V. J. S. Béjar +6

Whether BDs form as stars through gravitational collapse ("star-like") or BDs and some very low-mass stars constitute a separate population which form alongside stars comparable to…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 12 cited

M-dwarf binaries as tracers of star and brown dwarf formation

Michael Marks, Markus Janson, Pavel Kroupa +2

The separation distribution for M-dwarf binaries in the ASTRALUX survey is narrower and peaking at smaller separations than the distribution for solar-type binaries. This is often…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 63 cited

Characterizing the Brown Dwarf Formation Channels from the Initial Mass Function and Binary-star Dynamics

Ingo Thies, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, Pavel Kroupa +1

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a key property of stellar populations. There is growing evidence that the classical star-formation mechanism by the direct cloud fragment…