A universal stellar initial mass function? a critical look at variations

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2010, Pages 339-389

  Bastian, Nate ^a   Covey, Kevin R ^b,c   Meyer, Michael R ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical evolution of galaxies; Galaxy evolution; Star formation; Stellar clusters; Stellar populations; Substellar objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956372623     PISSN: 00664146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101642     Document Type: Article

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