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Kroupa Initial Mass Function

The Kroupa Initial Mass Function is a piecewise power-law model of the initial mass function that describes the distribution of stellar masses at birth, distinguished by its empirically derived breakpoints and exponents tailored to match observations of stars in the solar neighborhood.

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228

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2017–2026

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Kroupa Imf

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Publications

38

Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment

I. K. Baldry, Michael L. Balogh, R. G. Bower et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2006 · 889 citations · Full text

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IMPROVED ESTIMATES OF THE MILKY WAY’S STELLAR MASS AND STAR FORMATION RATE FROM HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS

Timothy C. Licquia, Jeffrey A. Newman · The Astrophysical Journal · 2015 · 494 citations · Full text

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Stellar masses of SDSS-III/BOSS galaxies at z ∼ 0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models

Claudia Maraston, J. Pforr, Bruno Henriques et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · 229 citations · Full text

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M82-F: a doomed super star cluster?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 176 citations · Full text

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ATLASGAL – environments of 6.7 GHz methanol masers

J. S. Urquhart, T. J. T. Moore, F. Schüller et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · 170 citations · Full text

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Authors

228

  1. PK
    Pavel Kroupa

    University of Bonn, Germany

    3 publications · 198 citations

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  2. NW
    Nathan W. C. Leigh

    American Museum of Natural History, United States

    3 publications · 186 citations

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  3. MM
    Michael Marks

    University of Bonn, Germany

    2 publications · 125 citations

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  4. JJ
    Jeremy J. Webb

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 148 citations

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  5. MG
    Mirek Giersz

    Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland

    2 publications · 100 citations

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Institutions

154

  1. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    187 citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    516 citations

  3. University of Portsmouth

    Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    3.7K citations

  4. Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    299 citations

  6. Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

    Besançon, France

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    122 citations

  7. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    186 citations

  8. University of Hertfordshire

    Hatfield, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    263 citations

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Venues

  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    19 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 11 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 1 publications · 14 citations

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