How does a low-mass cut-off in the stellar IMF affect the evolution of young star clusters?
How does a low-mass cut-off in the stellar IMF affect the evolution of young star clusters?
We investigate how different stellar initial mass functions (IMFs) can affect the mass loss and survival of star clusters. We find that IMFs with radically different low-mass cut-offs (between 0.1 and 2 Msun) do not change cluster destruction time-scales as much as might be expected. Unsurprisingly, we find that clusters …