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C.D. Matzner (U. Toronto), E. Quataert (U.C. Berkeley), N. Murray (U. Toronto), Y. Levin (Leiden)
We consider the regulation of thermal Jeans masses by radiation in regions of massive star formation, and argue that this regulates the characteristic stellar mass in the resulting population. The derived characteristic mass is of order the Chandrasekhar mass.
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37 #4
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