Spectroscopic constraints on the form of the stellar cluster mass function
Bastian, N. and Konstantopoulos, I.~S. and Trancho, G. and Weisz, D.~R. and Larsen, S.~S. and Fouesneau, M. and Kaschinski, C.~B. and Gieles, M.
Keywords
galaxies: star clusters: general
Abstract
This contribution addresses the question of whether the initial cluster mass function (ICMF) has a fundamental limit (or truncation) at high masses. The shape of the ICMF at high masses can be studied using the most massive young (
