The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Corbelli, Edvige (Editor), Palla, Francesco (Editor), Zinnecker, Hans (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 327
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Nuclear physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.