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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…
astro-ph2003★ 525 cited
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…