Research Article

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

Figure 3

Contours of log( 𝛾 v a l i d ) in the 𝑀 p r / 𝑀 p d - 𝑏 / 𝑟 p d parameter space, where 𝛾 v a l i d is defined in Section 2. The shaded grey area indicates where the impulse approximation predicts nonzero mass loss.
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