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Processes controlling the initial mass function: interstellar turbulence and magnetic fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R. C. Fleck Jr.
R. C. Fleck Jr.*
Affiliation:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA

Abstract

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The observed flattening of the initial stellar mass function at low mass can be accounted for in terms of the different interstellar cloud size-mass scaling and different ambipolar diffusion time scaling for small, thermally-supported clouds and larger clouds supported primarily by turbulent pressure.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 407 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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