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

Figure 4

Mass-radius relations used in studies of calculating mass loss from stars due to stellar collisions. The thin lines are power-law relations of power-law index 1.0, 0.8, and 0.85 used by Rauch [33], Lai et al. [32], and Benz and Hills [31], respectively. The dotted line is the relation used by Freitag and Benz [38], and the thick line is the relation used in this work.