The purpose of this work is to produce the Core Mass Function (CMF)
of the Serpens star-forming region and confront it with the Initial
Mass Function (IMF), the statistical distribution of initial star mass.
As Testi & Sergent (1998) discovered, the power-law index of the slope
of the CMF is very close to the one of the Salpeter’s IMF (Salpeter,
1955): dN/dM / M2.35. This strongly suggests that the stellar IMF
results from the fragmentation process in turbulent cloud cores rather
than from stellar accretion mechanisms and gives a huge contribute to
undestanding the star formation.
For this work, we started from the data delivered by the European
satellite Herschel and produced the maps of the Serpens with Unimap
code (Piazzo et al, 2015). Hence we obtained a core catalogue with two
different softwares getsources (Men'shchikov et al, 2012) and CuTEx
(Molinari et al, 2011) and we eliminated from it any source that is
not a core.
A full discussion of the cores physical propreties as well as the
whole region is under preparation
