The low-mass initial mass function of the field population in the large magellanic cloud with hubble space telescope WFPC2 observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 641, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 838-851

  Gouliermis, D ^a   Brandner, W ^a   Henning, Th ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: stellar content; Magellanic Clouds; Stars: evolution; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745370947     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500500     Document Type: Article

References (136)

1. Alexander, D. R., Brocato, E., Cassisi, S., Castellani, V., Ciacio, F., & degl'Innocenti, S. 1997, A&A, 317, 90
2. Andersen, J. 1991, A&A Rev., 3, 91
3. Baraffe, I., Chabrier, G., Allard, F., & Hauschildt, P. H. 1995, ApJ, 446, L35
4. Barrado y Navascués, D., Stauffer, J. R., Bouvier, J., & Martín, E. L. 2001, ApJ, 546, 1006
5. Basu, S., & Jones, C. E. 2004, MNRAS, 347, L47
6. Bate, M. R., Bonnell, I. A., & Bromm, V. 2002, MNRAS, 332, L65
7. _. 2003, MNRAS, 339, 577
8. Bonnarel, F., et al. 2000, A&AS, 143, 33
9. Bonnell, I. A., Bate, M. R., & Vine, S. G. 2003, MNRAS, 343, 413
10. Bonnell, I. A., Bate, M. R., & Zinnecker, H. 1998, MNRAS, 298, 93
11. Bonnell, I. A., Clarke, C. J., Bate, M. R., & Pringle, J. E. 2001, MNRAS, 324, 573
12. Bonnell, I. A., & Davies, M. B. 1998, MNRAS, 295, 691
13. Bonnell, I. A., Vine, S. G., & Bate, M. R. 2004, MNRAS, 349, 735
14. Bouvier, J., Stauffer, J. R., Martin, E. L., Barrado y Navascués, D., Wallace, B., & Bejar, V. J. S. 1998, A&A, 336, 490
15. Briceño, C., Luhman, K. L., Hartmann, L., Stauffer, J. R., & Kirkpatrick, J. D. 2002, ApJ, 580, 317
16. Brown, A. G. A. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP). 45
17. Casassus, S., Bronfman, L., May, J., & Nyman, L.-Å. 2000, A&A, 358, 514
18. Castro, R., Santiago, B. X., Gilmore, G. F., Beaulieu, S., & Johnson, R. A. 2001, MNRAS, 326, 333
19. Chabrier, G. 2003, PASP, 115, 763
20. Chabrier, G., Baraffe, I., & Plez, B. 1996, ApJ, 459, L91
21. Cheselka, M., Holberg, J. B., Watkins, R., & Collins, J. 1993. AJ, 106, 2365
22. Churchwell, E. 2002, ARA&A, 40, 27
23. de Grijs, R., Gilmore, G. F., Johnson, R. A., & Mackey, A. D. 2002a, MNRAS, 331, 245
24. de Grijs et al. 2002b, MNRAS, 337, 597
25. Delgado-Donate, E. J., Clarke, C. J., & Bate, M. R. 2004, MNRAS, 347, 759
26. Dolphin, A. E. 2000a, PASP, 112, 1383
27. _. 2000b, PASP, 112, 1397
28. Dolphin, A. E., & Hunter, D. A. 1998, AJ, 116, 1275
29. Elmegreen, B. G. 1997, ApJ, 486, 944
30. _. G. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 148, Origins, ed. C. E. Woodward, J. M. Shull, & H. A. Thronson, Jr. (San Francisco: ASP), 150
31. _. 1999. ApJ, 515, 323
32. _. 2004, MNRAS, 354, 367
33. Elmegreen, B. G., & Scalo, J. 2006. ApJ, 636, 149
34. Elson, R. A. W., Gilmore, G. F., & Santiago, B. X. 1997, MNRAS, 289, 157
35. Elson, R. A. W., Sigurdsson, S., Hurley, J., Davies, M. B., & Gilmore, G. F. 1998, ApJ, 499, 153
36. Fischer, Ph., Pryor, C., Murray, S., Mateo, M., & Richtler, T. 1998, AJ. 115, 592
37. Gallagher, J. S., et al. 1996, ApJ, 466, 732
38. Gammie, C. F., Lin, Y.-T., Stone, J. M., & Ostriker, E. C. 2003, ApJ, 592, 203
39. Garay, G., & Lizano, S. 1999. PASP, 111, 1049
40. García-Berro, E., Ritossa, C., & Iben, I., Jr. 1997, ApJ, 485, 765
41. Garmany, C. D., Conti, P. S., & Chiosi, C. 1982. ApJ, 263, 777
42. Garmany, C. D., Massey, Ph., & Parker, J. W. 1994, AJ. 108, 1256
43. Geha, M. C., et al. 1998, AJ, 115, 1045
44. Gerhard, O. 2000, in ASP Conf. Ser. 211, ed. A. Lançon & C. Boily, Massive Stellar Clusters (San Francisco: ASP). 12
45. Giersz, M., & Heggie, D. C. 1996, MNRAS, 279, 1037
46. Girardi, L., Bressan, A., Bertelli, G., & Chiosi, C. 2000, A&AS, 141, 371
47. Girardi, L., et al. 2002, A&A, 391, 195
48. Gouliermis, D., Brandner, W., & Henning, T. 2005, ApJ, 623, 846
49. Gouliermis, D., Keller, S. C., Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., & Bellas-Velidis, I. 2004, A&A, 416, 137
50. Gouliermis, D., et al. 2002, A&A, 381, 862
51. Grebel, E. K., & Chu, Y.-H. 2000, AJ, 119, 787
52. Henry, T. J., & McCarthy, D. W. 1993, AJ, 106, 773
53. Hill, J. K., et al. 1994, ApJ, 425, 122
54. Hill, R. S., et al. 1995, ApJ, 446, 622
55. Hillenbrand, L. A., & Carpenter, J. M. 2000, ApJ, 540, 236
56. Holtzmann, J., A., Burrows, C., Casertano, S., Hester, J., Trauger, J., Watson, A., & Worthey, G. 1995, PASP, 107, 1065
57. Holtzman, J. A., et al. 1999, AJ, 118, 2262
58. Hunter, D. A., et al. 1997, ApJ, 478, 124
59. Javiel, S. C., Santiago, B. X., & Kerber, L. O. 2005, A&A, 431, 73
60. Jeffries, R. D. 1997, MNRAS, 288, 585
61. Klessen, R. S. 1991, ApJ, 556, 837
62. Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., & Michalitsianos, A. G. 1993, A&A, 269, 107
63. Kontizas, M., Morgan, D. H., Hatzidimitriou, D., & Kontizas, E. 1990, A&AS, 84, 527
64. Koornneef, J. 1983, A&A, 128, 84
65. Kroupa, P. 2002, Science, 295, 82
66. Kroupa, P., Aarseth, S., & Hurley, J. 2001, MNRAS, 321, 699
67. Kroupa, P., & Bouvier, J. 2003, MNRAS, 346, 369
68. Kroupa, P., & Tout, C. A. 1997, MNRAS, 287, 402
69. Kroupa, P., Tout, C. A., & Gilmore, G. 1990, MNRAS, 244, 76 (KTG90)
70. _. 1993, MNRAS. 262, 545
71. Kroupa, P., & Weidner, C. 2003, ApJ, 598, 1076
72. Lada, E. A., Lada, C. J., & Muench, A. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP), 107
73. Larson, R. B. 1990, in Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation, ed. R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, C. Chiosi, & A. Di Fazio (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 389
74. _. 2002, MNRAS, 332, 155
75. Le Duigou, J.-M., Knödlseder, J. 2002, A&A, 392, 869
76. Leitherer, C. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP), 61
77. Leitherer, C., & Wolf, B. 1984, A&A, 132, 151
78. Li, Y., Klessen, R. S., Mac Low, M.-M. 2003, ApJ 592, 975
79. Lucke, P. B., & Hodge, P. W. 1970, AJ, 75, 171
80. Luhman, K. L. 2000, ApJ, 544, 1044
81. Luhman, K. L., et al. 2000, ApJ, 540, 1016
82. _. 2003, ApJ, 593, 1093
83. Lyo, A.-R., Lawson, W. A., Feigelson, E. D., & Crause, L. A. 2004, MNRAS, 347, 246
84. Malkov, O., & Zinnecker, H. 2001, MNRAS, 321, 149
85. Massey, P. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP), 17
86. _. 2002, ApJS, 141, 81
87. Massey, P., & Hunter, D. A. 1998, ApJ, 493, 180
88. Massey, P., Silkey, M., Garmany, C. D., Degioia-Eastwood, K. 1989a, AJ, 97, 107
89. Massey, P. Parker, J. W., & Garmany, C. D. 1989b, AJ, 98, 1305
90. Massey, Ph., Lang, C. C., Degioia-Eastwood, K., & Garmany, C. D. 1995, ApJ, 438, 188
91. McKee, C. F., & Tan, J. C. 2003, ApJ, 585, 850
92. Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Campos, A., McCracken, H. J., & Fong, R. 2001, MNRAS, 323, 795
93. Mihalas, D., & Binney, J. 1981, Galactic Astronomy (San Francisco: Freeman)
94. Miller, G. E., & Scalo, J. M. 1979, ApJS, 41, 513
95. Muench, A. A., Lada, E. A., Lada, C. J., & Alves, J. 2002, ApJ, 573, 366
96. Muench, A. A., et al. 2003, AJ, 125, 2029
97. Myers, P. C. 2000, ApJ, 530, L119
98. Oey, M. S. 1996, ApJ, 465, 231
99. Oey, M. S., & Massey, P. 1995, ApJ, 452, 210
100. Olsen, K. A. G., Kim, S., & Buss, J. F. 2001, AJ, 121, 3075
101. Padoan, P., & Nordlund, Å. 2002, ApJ, 576, 870
102. Panagia, N., Gilmozzi, R., Macchetto, F., Adorf, H.-M., & Kirshner, R. P. 1991, ApJ, 380, L23
103. Parker, J. W., Garmany, C. D., Massey, P., & Walborn, N. R. 1992, AJ, 103, 1205
104. Parker, J. W., Zaritsky, D., Stecher, T. P., Harris, J., & Massey, P. 2001, AJ, 121, 891
105. Parker, J. W., et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 180
106. Piotto, G., Cool, A. M., & King, I. R. 1997, AJ, 113, 1345
107. Pols, O. R., Schroder, K., Hurley, J. R., Tout, C. A., & Eggleton, P. P. 1998, MNRAS, 298, 525
108. Portegies-Zwart, Simon, F., Baumgardt, H., Hut, P., Makino, J., & McMillan, S. L. W. 2004, Nature, 428, 724
109. Preibisch, T., Stanke, T., & Zinnecker, H. 2003, A&A, 409, 147
110. Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., & Flannery, B. P. 1992. Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN (2nd ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
111. Price, N. M., & Podsiadlowski, Ph. 1995, MNRAS, 273, 1041
112. Rana, N. C. 1987, A&A, 184, 104
113. Ratnatunga, K. U., & Bahcall, J. N. 1985, ApJS, 59, 63
114. Reid, N. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP), 121
115. Reid, N., et al. 1999, ApJ, 521, 613
116. Reipurth, B., & Clarke, C. 2001, AJ, 122, 432
117. Rieke, G. H., & Lebofsky, M. J. 1985, ApJ, 288, 618
118. Salasnich, B., Girardi, L., Weiss, A., & Chiosi, C. 2000, A&A, 361, 1023
119. Salpeter, E. E. 1955, ApJ, 121, 161
120. Scalo, J. 1986, Fundam. Cosmic Phys., 11, 1
121. _. 1990. in Windows on Galaxies, ed. D. Fabbiano et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 125
122. _. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 142, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell (San Francisco: ASP), 201
123. Sirianni, M., Nota, A., De Marchi, G., Leitherer, C., & Clampin, M. 2002, ApJ, 579, 275
124. Shadmehri, M. 2004, MNRAS, 354, 375
125. Smecker-Hane, T. A., Cole, A. A., Gallagher, J. S., & Stetson, P. B. 2002, ApJ, 566, 239
126. Stahler, S. W., Palla, F., & Ho., P. T. P. 2000, Protostars and Planets IV, ed. V. Mannings, A. P Boss, & S. Russell (Tucscon: Univ. Arizona Press), 327
127. Stobie, R. S., Ishida, K., & Peacock, J. A. 1989, MNRAS, 238, 709
128. Stolte, A., Grebel, E. K., Brandner, W., & Figer, D. F. 2002, A&A, 394, 459
129. Taylor, B. J. 1986, ApJS, 60, 577
130. Tsujimoto, T., Yoshii, Y., Nomoto, K., Matteucci, F., Thielemann, F.-K., & Hashimoto, M. 1997, ApJ, 483, 228
131. Weidemann, V. 1990, ARA&A, 28, 103
132. Wood, M. A. 1995, in Proc. Ninth European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ed. D. Doester & K. Werner (Berlin: Springer), 612
133. Yorke, H. W. Sonnhalter, C. 2002, ApJ, 569, 846
134. Zinnecker, H. 1982, Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 395, 226
135. _. 1986, in IAU Symp. 116, Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies, ed. R. L. Newbum, M. Neugebauer, & J. Rahe (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 271
136. _. 1996, in The Interplay Between Massive Star Formation, the ISM and Galaxy Evolution, ed. D. Kunth et al. (Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Frontières), 249