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The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later

The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF concept by Ed Salpeter along with Ed Salpeter's 80th birthday. It summarizes a vast amounts of information, and updates the Herstmonceux book on the IMF,(eds. Howell and G...

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Institutionell upphovsman: SpringerLink (Online service)
Övriga upphovsmän: Corbelli, Edvige. (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Palla, Francesco. (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zinnecker, Hans. (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:English
Publicerad: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Upplaga:1st ed. 2005.
Serie:Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 327
Ämnen:
Astrophysics.
Nuclear physics.
Astrophysics and Astroparticles.
Particle and Nuclear Physics.
Länkar:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • From the contents Preface
  • List of Participants
  • The IMF Concept through Time
  • The IMF in our Galaxy: Clusters and field stars
  • The IMF in our Galaxy: Star Forming Regions
  • The Extragalactic IMF
  • The Origin of the IMF: Atomic and Molecular Gas Tracers
  • The Origin of the IMF: Cloud Fragmentation and Collapse
  • The Origin of the IMF: From Gas to Stars
  • The "Initial" IMF
  • Chuzpah Talks
  • Author Index.

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