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What does (not) drive the variation of the low-mass end of the stellar initial mass function of early-type galaxies

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Context. The stellar initial mass function (IMF) seems to be variable and not universal, contrary to what has been argued in the literature over the last three decades. Several relations of the low-mass end of the IMF slope with other stellar population, photometrical, and kinematical parameters of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) have been proposed, but consensus on the factual cause of the observed variations has not yet been reached.

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10.1051/0004-6361/202039810

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0000-0002-5292-2782
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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Physics
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Astrophysics
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0000-0001-7214-3009
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0000-0001-7817-6995
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EDP Sciences
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645
Article number:
L1
Publication date:
2021-01-08
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2020-12-01
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1432-0746
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0004-6361

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