@inbook{64e8de296e6a41269a38a00cd406216c,
title = "Competitive accretion and the IMF",
abstract = "Competitive accretion occurs when stars in a cluster accrete from a shared reservoir of gas. The competition arises due to the relative attraction of stars as a function of their mass and location in the cluster. The low relative motions of the stars and gas in young, gas dominated clusters results in a tidal limit to the accretion whereas in the stellar dominated cluster cores, the high relative velocities results in Bondi-Hoyle accretion.",
author = "Bonnell, {Ian Alexander}",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7_78",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4020-3406-0",
series = "Astrophysics and Space Science Library",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
number = "VII",
pages = "425--430",
editor = "Edvige Corbelli and Francesco Palla and Hans Zinnecker",
booktitle = "The Initial Mass Function 50 years later",
address = "Germany",
}