This relationship is described by the Initial Mass Function (IMF). For more than half a century, astronomers have assumed that the IMF is a universal relationship, i.e., it is uniform throughout ...

A study of the stellar kinematics of a large sample of early-type galaxies provides evidence that the stellar initial mass function depends on the galaxy’s stellar mass-to-light ratio and thus ...

The Stellar Initial Mass Function is a function that describes relativefractionsof stars having different masses in a stellar system or a ratio of big and small stars in galaxies.

Gilles Chabrier, Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 115, No. 809 (July 2003), pp. 763-795 ...