Overview
- Editors:
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Edvige Corbelli
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INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
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Francesco Palla
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INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
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Hans Zinnecker
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Astrophysikalisches Potsdam, Germany
- Covers all aspects of the current research in this field, as testified by the large number of contributing scientists
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Table of contents (98 papers)
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The IMF in Our Galaxy: Star Forming Regions
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- Jean-Louis Monin, Sylvain Guieu, Catherine Dougados, Eduardo L. Martín, Eugene Magnier
Pages 121-122
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- A.A. Kaas, P. Persi, G. Olofsson, S. Bontemps, P. André, T. Prusti et al.
Pages 131-132
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- D. Barrado y Navascués, J.R. Stauffer, J. Bouvier
Pages 133-136
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- Ben Burningham, T. Naylor, S.P. Littlefair, R.D. Jeffries
Pages 141-142
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- Fiona Riddick, Patrick Roche, Phil Lucas
Pages 143-144
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- Anthony Whitworth, Hans Zinnecker
Pages 145-146
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- Fabrizio Massi, Leonardo Testi, Leonardo Vanzi
Pages 147-148
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- M.G. Petr-Gotzens, H.R. Ledo, D.E.A. Nürnberger
Pages 159-160
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- Yohei Harayama, Frank Eisenhauer
Pages 161-162
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- E.D. Feigelson, K.V. Getman
Pages 163-170
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- E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, F.R. Harnden, L. Hartmann
Pages 171-172
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The Extragalactic IMF
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- Pavel Kroupa, Carsten Weidner
Pages 175-186
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About this book
Theideatocelebrate50yearsoftheSalpeterIMFoccurredduringtherecent IAU General Assembly in Sydney, Australia. Indeed, it was from Australia that in July 1954 Ed Salpeter submitted his famous paper "The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution" with the rst derivation of the empirical stellar IMF. This contribution was to become one of the most famous astrophysics papers of the last 50 years. Here, Ed Salpeter introduced the terms "original mass function" and "original luminosity function", and estimated the pro- bility for the creation of stars of given mass at a particular time, now known as the "Salpeter Initial Mass Function", or IMF. The paper was written at the Australian National University in Canberra on leave of absence from Cornell University (USA) and was published in 1955 as 7 page note in the Astroph- ical Journal Vol. 121, page 161. To celabrate the 50th anniversary of the IMF, along with Ed Salpeter’s 80th birthday, we have organized a special meeting that brought together scientists involved in the empirical determination of this fundamental quantity in a va- ety of astrophysical contexts and other scientists fascinated by the deep imp- cations of the IMF on star formation theories, on the physical conditions of the gas before and after star formation, and on galactic evolution and cosmology. The meeting took place in one of the most beautiful spots of the Tuscan countryside, far from the noise and haste of everyday life.