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What does the IMF really tell us about star formation?
M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, S. P. Goodwin
Obtaining accurate measurements of the initial mass function (IMF) is often considered to be the key to understanding star formation, and a universal IMF is often assumed to imply…
astro-ph.GA2009★ 22 cited
What does a universal IMF imply about star formation?
Simon P Goodwin, M B N Kouwenhoven
We show that the same initial mass function (IMF) can result from very different modes of star formation from very similar underlying core and/or system mass functions. In particul…