The stellar mass spectrum in warm and dusty gas: Deviations from Salpeter in the Galactic centre and in circumnuclear starburst regions

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Volumn 374, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Klessen, Ralf S ^a,b   Spaans, Marco ^c   Jappsen, Anne Katharina ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equation of state; Galaxies: starburst; Galaxy: centre; Hydrodynamics; Stars: formation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947620172     PISSN: 17453933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00258.x     Document Type: Letter

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