Response to Comment on "An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst"

Bibcode
2018Sci...361.7032S
DOI
10.1126/science.aat7032
Schneider, F. R. N.; Sana, Hugues; Evans, Christopher J.; Bestenlehner, Joachim M.; Castro, Norberto; Fossati, Luca; Gräfener, Götz; Langer, Norbert; Ramírez-Agudelo, Oscar H.; Sabín-Sanjulián, Carolina; Simón-Díaz, S.; Tramper, Frank; Crowther, Paul A.; de Koter, Alexander; de Mink, Selma E.; Dufton, Philip L.; Garcia, Miriam; Gieles, Mark; Hénault-Brunet, Vincent; Herrero, A.; Izzard, Robert G.; Kalari, Venu; Lennon, Danny J.; Maíz Apellániz, Jesús; Markova, Nevy; Najarro, Francisco; Podsiadlowski, Philipp; Puls, Joachim; Taylor, William D.; van Loon, Jacco Th.; Vink, Jorick S.; Norman, Colin
Bibliographical reference

Science, Volume 361, Issue 6400, id. aat7032 (2018).

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7
2018
Journal
Science
Number of authors
32
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
6
Refereed citations
5
Description
Farr and Mandel reanalyze our data, finding initial mass function slopes for high-mass stars in 30 Doradus that agree with our results. However, their reanalysis appears to underpredict the observed number of massive stars. Their technique results in more precise slopes than in our work, strengthening our conclusion that there is an excess of massive stars (>30 solar masses) in 30 Doradus.
Type
Refereed

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