On the power-law tail in the mass function of protostellar condensations and stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Basu, Shantanu ^a   Jones, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; ISM: clouds; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STARS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; AMBIENTS; ISM : CLOUDS; LOG-NORMAL; MASS FUNCTIONS; NON-UNIFORM; POWER-LAW TAIL; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS FORMATION; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION;

CONDENSATION;

EID: 1642436599     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07405.x     Document Type: Article

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