Chance the IMF: How small fluctuations can have big effects on dwarf galaxies
There ain’t no gosh darn part (of this Astrobite about star formation in dwarf galaxies) you can’t tweet.
There ain’t no gosh darn part (of this Astrobite about star formation in dwarf galaxies) you can’t tweet.
Yesterday’s announcement of a new LIGO detection brings the total to four confirmed events (and one candidate). Can we responsibly make conclusions about population characteristics from so few data points?
Low-mass stars are much more common than massive ones. But massive stars outshine the smaller ones a thousand to one! How can astronomers account for this hidden majority? Maybe alcohol will help…
Hubble observations of a nearby galaxy show evidence for a universal initial mass function.
Van Dokkum & Conroy examane the variation of the stellar initial mass function by observing the integrated light from early-type galaxies.
You might think that stars with an approximately continuous distribution of masses would lead to remnants with an approximately continuous distribution masses. But you’d be wrong.