most citedThe relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function

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astro-ph2007★ 78 cited

The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function

Simon P Goodwin, Dave Nutter, Pavel Kroupa +2

Stars form from dense molecular cores, and the mass function of these cores (the CMF) is often found to be similar to the form of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). This sugg…