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most citedFrom filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt survey

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astro-ph.SR2026

Virial-based extraction of structures in numerical simulations: The vibes tool

Simon Chevalier, Fabien Louvet, Yann Bernard +9

The processes that determine the stellar initial mass function (IMF) and its connection to the core mass function (CMF) are among the major open questions in star formation. The de…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

ALMA-IMF XVI: Mass-averaged temperature of cores and protostellar luminosities in the ALMA-IMF protoclusters

F. Motte, Y. Pouteau, T. Nony +34

ALMA-IMF imaged 15 massive protoclusters down to a resolution of of 2 kau scales, identifying about 1000 star-forming cores. The mass and luminosity of these cores, which are funda…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 33 cited

ALMA-IMF XV: The core mass function in the high-mass star-formation regime

F. Louvet, P. Sanhueza, A. Stutz +38

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is critical to our understanding of star formation and the effects of young stars on their environment. On large scales, it enables us to us…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALMA-IMF XII: Point-process mapping of 15 massive protoclusters

P. Dell'Ova, F. Motte, A. Gusdorf +29

A crucial aspect in addressing the challenge of measuring the core mass function, that is pivotal for comprehending the origin of the initial mass function, lies in constraining th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 28 cited

Strong dependence of the physical properties of cores on spatial resolution in observations and simulations

Fabien Louvet, Patrick Hennebelle, Alexander Men'shchikov +3

During the last decade in star formation research, many studies have targeted low- and high-mass star formation regions located at different distances, with different telescopes ha…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

Mass segregation and sequential star formation in NGC 2264 revealed by Herschel

T. Nony, J. -F. Robitaille, F. Motte +16

The mass segregation of stellar clusters could be primordial rather than dynamical. Despite the abundance of studies of mass segregation for stellar clusters, those for stellar pro…