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Table 6.

Expected number of stars detected at 10 GHz within cylindrical beam of R = 0.5 pc, assuming a mass of 1 × 104 M, a volume filling factor of 1, different ages and two different slopes a of the initial mass function.

Age (Myr) 2 3 4 5
PARSEC

a = 2.35 1.4 ± 1.2 (7.7 ± 2.6) 4.7 ± 2.0 (6.4 ± 2.3) 5.6 ± 2.7 (5.9 ± 2.7) 3.4 ± 1.7 (5.6 ± 2.4)
a = 1.8 5.7 ± 2.1 (26.2 ± 4.8) 17.6 ± 4.0 (22.6 ± 4.6) 15.3 ± 3.7 (16.2 ± 3.9) 7.9 ± 2.8 (12.8 ± 3.4)

MIST

a = 2.35 2.5 ± 1.7 (8.1 ± 3.2) 5.8 ± 2.4 (9.6 ± 3.5) 3.3 ± 2.0 (3.5 ± 2.0) 3.1 ± 1.8 (3.1 ± 1.8)
a = 1.8 9.6 ± 3.1 (27.1 ± 4.5) 20.6 ± 4.2 (31.4 ± 5.3) 10.1 ± 3.1 (10.5 ± 3.1) 7.8 ± 2.9 (7.9 ± 2.8)

Notes. The numbers in brackets correspond to the assumption of a volume filling factor of 0.1 for the stellar wind.

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