Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high
enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the …

The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia
spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in …

The 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby analog of
large star-formation events in the distant universe. We determined the recent formation …

One of the key mysteries of star formation is the origin of the stellar initial mass function
(IMF). The IMF is observed to be nearly universal in the Milky Way and its satellites, and …

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is commonly interpreted to be a scale-invariant
probability density distribution function (PDF) such that many small clusters yield the same …

We present observational evidence of a correlation between the high-mass slope of the
stellar initial mass function (IMF) in young star clusters and their stellar surface density, σ …

Here we present a full description of the integrated galaxy-wide initial mass function (IGIMF)
theory in terms of the optimal sampling and compare it with available observations. Optimal …

We address the turbulent fragmentation scenario for the origin of the stellar initial mass
function (IMF), using a large set of numerical simulations of randomly driven supersonic …

Unbound young stellar systems, the loose ensembles of physically related young bright
stars, trace the typical regions of recent star formation in galaxies. Their morphologies vary …

Turbulence is a critical ingredient for star formation, yet its role for the initial mass function
(IMF) is not fully understood. Here we perform magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations …