Constraining the Stellar Mass Function in the Galactic Center via Mass Loss from Stellar Collisions

Figure 10

Mass loss rates due to direct and indirect stellar collisions within the Galactic center for 𝑀_min=0.2𝑀_⊙, 𝑀_max=100𝑀_⊙ and 𝛼=1.2. The arrow indicates the range in the diffuse X-ray observations (𝑟_gal<1.5^) which we use to constrain the PDMF (see Section 5).