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Evidence for a fundamental stellar upper mass limit from clustered star formation
Carsten Weidner, Pavel Kroupa
The observed masses of the most massive stars do not surpass about 150Msun. This may either be a fundamental upper mass limit which is defined by the physics of massive stars and/o…
On the origin of brown dwarfs and free-floating planetary mass objects
Pavel Kroupa, Jerome Bouvier
(abridged) Sub-stellar mass objects have fundamentally different binary properties than stars implying that they cannot have the same formation history. They are rather unfinished…
Massive Stars: Their Birth Sites and Distribution
Pavel Kroupa
The stellar IMF has been found to be an invariant Salpeter power-law (alpha=2.35) above about 1 Msun, but at the same time a massive star typically has more than one companion. Thi…
Galactic-Field IMFs of Massive Stars
Pavel Kroupa, Carsten Weidner
Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar IMF appears to be an invariant featureless Salpeter power-law with an exponent alph…
On the universal outcome of star-formation: Is there a link between stars and brown-dwarfs?
P. Kroupa, J. Bouvier, G. Duchene +1
(abridged) The recent evidence obtained by Briceno et al. that star-formation in Taurus-Auriga (TA) may be producing significantly fewer brown dwarfs (BDs) per star than the ONC is…
The dynamical evolution of Taurus--Auriga-type aggregates
Pavel Kroupa, Jerome Bouvier
(abridged) Star formation in the Taurus--Auriga (TA) molecular clouds is producing binary-rich aggregates containing at most a few dozen systems within a region spanning one pc wit…