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arxiv:2503.14812

IMF slope derived from a pure probabilistic model

Published on Mar 19
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The stellar initial mass function is of great significance for the study of star formation and galactic structure. Observations indicate that the IMF follows a power-law form. This work derived that when the expected number of stars formed from a spherical molecular cloud is much greater than 1, there is a relationship between the slope alpha of the IMF and r^n in the radius-density relation of spherically symmetric gas clouds, given by alpha = 3/(n+3) (Gamma_{IMF} = n/(n+3)). This conclusion is close to the results of numerical simulations and observations, but it is derived from a pure probabilistic model, which may have underlying reasons worth pondering.

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