Abstract
As most if not all stars are born in stellar clusters, the shape of the mass function of the field stars is not only determined by the initial mass function of stars (IMF) but also by the cluster mass function (CMF). In order to quantify this, Monte- Carlo simulations were carried out by taking cluster masses randomly from a CMF and then populating these clusters with stars randomly taken from an IMF. Two cases were studied. Firstly, the star masses were added randomly until the cluster mass was reached.
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Weidner, C., Kroupa, P. (2005). Monte-Carlo Experiments on Star Cluster Induced Integrated-GALaxy IMF Variations. In: Corbelli, E., Palla, F., Zinnecker, H. (eds) The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 327. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7_37
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