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astro-ph.SR2015★ 209 cited
Variable protostellar accretion with episodic bursts
Eduard I. Vorobyov, Shantanu Basu
We present the latest development of the disk gravitational instability and fragmentation model, originally introduced by us to explain episodic accretion bursts in the early stage…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 7 cited
The Luminosity of Population III Star Clusters
Alexander L. DeSouza, Shantanu Basu
We analyze the time evolution of the luminosity of a cluster of Population III protostars formed in the early universe. We argue from the Jeans criterion that primordial gas can co…
astro-ph.SR2015★ 36 cited
The MLP Distribution: A Modified Lognormal Power-Law Model for the Stellar Initial Mass Function
Shantanu Basu, M. Gil, Sayantan Auddy
This work explores the mathematical properties of a distribution introduced by Basu & Jones (2004), and applies it to model the stellar initial mass function (IMF). The distributio…