• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stab3597
• Corpus ID: 244896288

The physics governing the upper truncation mass of the globular cluster mass function

@article{Hughes2021ThePG,
  title={The physics governing the upper truncation mass of the globular cluster mass function},
  author={Meghan E Hughes and Joel L Pfeffer and Nate Bastian and Marie Martig and J. M. Diederik Kruijssen and Robert A. Crain and Marta Reina-Campos and Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2021}
}

• M. Hughes, J. Pfeffer, +5 authors Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez
• Published 3 December 2021
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The mass function of globular cluster (GC) populations is a fundamental observable that encodes the physical conditions under which these massive stellar clusters formed and evolved. The high-mass end of star cluster mass functions are commonly described using a Schechter function, with an exponential truncation mass Mc, *. For the GC mass functions in the Virgo galaxy cluster, this truncation mass increases with galaxy mass (M*). In this paper we fit Schechter mass functions to the GCs in…