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Constraints on a Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function from Ultraviolet to Near‐Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Densities

Constraints on a Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function from Ultraviolet to Near‐Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Densities

We obtain constraints on the slope of a universal stellar initial mass function (IMF) over a range of cosmic star-formation histories (SFH) using z=0.1 luminosity densities in the range from 0.2 to 2.2 microns. The age-IMF degeneracy of integrated spectra of stellar populations can be broken for the Universe as …