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Prestellar Core Collisions - Impact on the formation of the CMF? A case study on FeSt 1-457

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

Gabor I. Herbst-Kiss  and
Joao Alves
Gabor I. Herbst-Kiss
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Joao Alves
Affiliation:
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The initial mass function (IMF) is a profoundly studied subject, however its origin is still unclear and heavily disputed. The Core Mass Function (CMF) has a remarkable resemblance to a shifted IMF along the mass axis of a factor of 3. This CMF has been observed amongst others in the Pipe Nebula, a calm molecular cloud at approximately 130 pc. We study the origin of the CMF under the assumption that collisions and merging of prestellar cores shape the CMF. We present our preliminary results of core collisions for the well known FeSt 1-457.

Keywords

ISM: cloudskinematics and dynamics
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S345: Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life , August 2018 , pp. 328 - 329
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020 

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