Corbelli, Edvige
The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later
Part I. The IMF Concept Through
1. Introduction to IMF@50
Edwin E. Salpeter
2. ED, ME, and The Interstellar Medium
Steven V.W. Beckwith
3. The IMF Challenge - 25 Questions
Hans Zinnecker
4. Fifty Years of IMF Variation: The Intermediate-Mass Stars
John Scalo
5. The Initial Mass Function: From Salpeter 1955 to 2005
Gilles Chabrier
Part II. The IMF in Our Galaxy: Clusters and Field Stars
6. The Field IMF Across The H-Burning Limit
I. Neill Reid
7. The 0.03–10 M?Mass Function of Young Open Clusters
J. Bouvier, E. Moraux, J.R. Stauffer
8. The Time Spread of Star Formation in the Pleiades
John R. Stauffer
9. Age Spreads in Clusters and Associations: The Lithium Test
Francesco Palla, Sofia Randich
10. The Initial Mass Function of Three Galactic Open Clusters
L. Prisinzano, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, F. Favata, F. Damiani
11. The Stellar IMF of Galactic Clusters and Its Evolution
Guido De Marchi, Francesco Paresce, Simon Portegies Zwart
12. Two Stages of Star Formation in Globular Clusters and the IMF
Francesca D’Antona
13. The Stellar Initial Mass Function in The Galactic Center
Donald F. Figer
14. The Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Bulge
Manuela Zoccali
15. Halo Mass Function
Wolfgang Brandner
Part III. The IMF in Our Galaxy: Star Forming Regions
16. Embedded Clusters and the IMF
Charles J. Lada
17. The IMF of Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Star Forming Regions
K.L. Luhman
18. The Substellar IMF of the Taurus Cloud
Jean-Louis Monin, Sylvain Guieu, Catherine Dougados, Eduardo L. Martín, Eugene Magnier
19. The Low-Mass End of the IMF in Chamaeleon I
Timo Prusti, Sacha Hony
20. Limitations of the Ir-Excess Method for Identifying Young Stars
Sacha Hony, Timo Prusti
21. The IMF of Class II Objects in the Active Serpens Cloud Core
A.A. Kaas, P. Persi, G. Olofsson, S. Bontemps, P. André, T. Prusti, A.J. Delgado, F. Motte
22. ? ORIONIS: A 0.02–50 M
D. Barrado y Navascués, J.R. Stauffer, J. Bouvier
23. Does the “STELLAR” IMF Extend to Planetary Masses?
Eduardo L. Martín
24. Estimating the Low-Mass IMF in OB Associations: ? Orionis
Ben Burningham, T. Naylor, S.P. Littlefair, R.D. Jeffries
25. Young Brown Dwarfs in Orion
Fiona Riddick, Patrick Roche, Phil Lucas
26. The Formation of Free-Floating Brown Dwarves & Planetary-Mass Objects by Photo-Erosion of Prestellar Cores
Anthony Whitworth, Hans Zinnecker
27. IMF in Small Young Embedded Star Clusters
Fabrizio Massi, Leonardo Testi, Leonardo Vanzi
28. The Arches Cluster - A Case for IMF Variations?
Andrea Stolte
29. The IMF and Mass Segregation in Young Galactic Starburst Clusters
Eva K. Grebel
30. A 2.2 Micron Catalogue of Stars in NGC 3603
M.G. Petr-Gotzens, H.R. Ledo, D.E.A. Nürnberger
31. The IMF of The Massive Star Forming Region NGC 3603 from Vlt adaptive Optics Observations
Yohei Harayama, Frank Eisenhauer
32. X-Rays and Young Clusters
E.D. Feigelson, K.V. Getman
33. NGC 2264: A Chandra View
E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, F.R. Harnden, L. Hartmann
Part IV. The Extragalactic IMF
34. Variations of the IMF
Pavel Kroupa, Carsten Weidner
35. On the form of the IMF: Upper-Mass Cutoff and Slope
M.S. Oey, C.J. Clarke
36. Evidence for a Fundamental Stellar Upper Mass Limit from Clustered Star Formation
Carsten Weidner, Pavel Kroupa
37. Monte-Carlo Experiments on Star Cluster Induced Integrated-GALaxy IMF Variations
Carsten Weidner, Pavel Kroupa
38. The Initial Conditions Tostar Formation: Lowmass Stars at Lowmetallicity
Martino Romaniello, Nino Panagia, Massimo Robberto
39. Stellar Associations in the LMC
Dimitrios Gouliermis, Wolfgang Brandner, Thomas Henning
40. The IMF Long Ago and Far Away:
Rosemary F.G. Wyse
41. The Massive Star IMF at High Metallicity
Fabio Bresolin
42. The Initial Mass Function in Disc Galaxies and in Galaxy Clusters: The Chemo-Photometric Picture
Laura Portinari
43. Steeper, Flatter, OR Just Salpeter? Evidence From Galaxy Evolution and Galaxy Clusters
Alvio Renzini
44. Initial Mass Function and Galactic Chemical Evolution Models
D. Romano, C. Chiappini, F. Matteucci, M. Tosi
45. Newdatabase of Ssp
Rosaria Tantalo
46. The Starburst IMF - an Impossible Measurement?
Bernhard R. Brandl, Morten Andersen
47. Gould’s Belt to Starburst Galaxies: The IMF of Extreme Star Formation
M.R. Meyer, J. Greissl, M. Kenworthy, D. McCarthy
48. Mid-IR Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Constraints on the IMF in Very Young Embedded Super Star Clusters
N. Leticia Martín-Hernández, Daniel Schaerer, Marc Sauvage
49. Wolf-Rayet Stars as IMF Probes
Claus Leitherer
Part V. The Origin of the IMF: Atomic and Molecular Gas Tracers
50. Smidgens of Fuel for Star Formation
Lyle Hoffman, Edwin E. Salpeter
51. The Initial Mass Function in the Context Ofwarm Ionized Gas in Disk Galaxies
René A.M. Walterbos
52. Tracing the Star Formation Cycle Through the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
John M. Dickey
53. Examining the Relationship Between Interstellar Turbulence and Star Formation
Mark H. Heyer, Christopher M. Brunt
54. The IMF of Giant Molecular Clouds
Leo Blitz, Erik Rosolowsky
55. Multiphase Molecular Gas and Star Forming Sites in M33
Edvige Corbelli, Mark H. Heyer
56. How Does Star Formation Build a Galactic Disk?
Tony Wong, Leo Blitz
57. Mapping Extragalactic Molecular Clouds: Centaurus a (NGC 5128)
Yuri Beletsky, João Alves
58. Tiny HI Clouds in the Local ISM
Robert Braun, Nissim Kanekar
59. Submm Observations of Prestellar Condensations: Probing the Initial Conditions for the IMF
Philippe André
60. How Well Determined is the Core Mass Function of ? OPH?
D. Stamatellos, A. Whitworth
61. Fromdense Cores Toprotostars in Lowmass Star Forming Regions
Toshikazu Onishi
62. Fragmentation of a High-Mass Star Forming Core
Henrik Beuther
Part VI. The Origin of the IMF: Cloud Fragmentation and Collapse
63. Understanding the IMF
Richard B. Larson
64. Flows, Filaments and Fragmentation
Lee Hartmann
65. Minimum Mass for Opacity-Limited Fragmentation in Dynamically Triggered Star Formation
Anthony Whitworth, Douglas Boyd
66. Origin of the Core Mass Function
Anthony Whitworth
67. The Connection Between the Core Mass Function and the IMF in Taurus
S.P. Goodwin, A. Whitworth, D. Ward-Thompson
68. The Stellar IMF as a Property of Turbulence
Paolo Padoan, Åke Nordlund
69. The Stellar Mass Spectrum from Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation
Ralf Klessen, Katharina Jappsen, Richard Larson, Yuexing Li, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
70. Turbulent Control of the Star Formation Efficiency
Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni
71. Thermal Condensation in a Turbulent Atomic Hydrogen Flow
Patrick Hennebelle, Edouard Audit
72. The Formation of Molecular Clouds
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Hiroshi Koyama
73. Turbulence-Accelerated Star Formation in Magnetized Clouds
Fumitaka Nakamura, Zhi-Yun Li
74. Cluster Density and the IMF
Bruce G. Elmegreen
Part VII. The Origin of the IMF: From Gas to Stars
75. A Theory of the IMF
Frank H. Shu, Zhi-Yun Li, Anthony Allen
76. A Class of IMF Theories
Fred C. Adams
77. An Effective Initial Mass Function for Galactic Disks
David Hollenbach, Antonio Parravano, Christopher F. McKee
78. Competitive Accretion and the IMF
Ian A. Bonnell
79. The Dependence of the IMF on Initial Conditions
Matthew R. Bate
80. A Minimum Hypothesis Explanation for an IMF with a Lognormal Body and Power Law Tail
Shantanu Basu, C.E. Jones
81. Feedback and the Initial Mass Function
Joseph Silk
82. Feedback in Star Formation Simulations: Implications for the IMF
C.J. Clarke, R.G. Edgar, J.E. Dale
83. Massive Star Feedback on the IMF
M. Robberto, J. Song, G. Mora Carrillo, S.V.W. Beckwith, R.B. Makidon, N. Panagia
84. Turbulence Andmagnetic Fields in Clouds
Shantanu Basu
Part VIII. The “Initial” IMF
85. The Primordial IMF
Volker Bromm
86. Cosmic Relevance of the First Stars
Raffaella Schneider
87. Star Formation Triggered by First Supernovae
Fumitaka Nakamura
88. Detecting Primordial Stars
Nino Panagia
89. Constraints on the IMF in Low Metallicity and Popiii Environments
Daniel Schaerer
90. Thermal Evolution of Star Forming Clouds in Lowmetallicity Environment
K. Omukai
91. Observational Evidence for a Different IMF in the Early Galaxy
Sara Lucatello, Raffaele Gratton, Timothy Beers, Eugenio Carretta
92. The Role of the IMF in the Cosmic Metal Production
Francesco Calura
93. From Population III Stars to (Super)Massive Black Holes
Francesco Haardt
94. Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows as Probes of High-
P.M. Vreeswijk
Part IX. Chuzpah Talks
95. Electrostatic Screening of Nuclear Reactions 50 Years Later
Giora Shaviv
96. The Life and Death of Planetary Nebulae
Yervant Terzian, Artin Teymourian
97. Early Results from the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope
J.R. Houck, V. Charmandaris, B.R. Brandl
98. Future Observational Opportunities
Gary J. Melnick
Avainsanat: Physics, Astrophysics, Elementary Particles and Nuclei
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- Corbelli, Edvige
- Palla, Francesco
- Zinnecker, Hans
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