Turbulence and star formation in molecular clouds
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 1 March 1980
Numerical Calculations of the Dynamics of a Collapsing Proto-Star
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 1 August 1969
Early star formation and the evolution of the stellar initial mass function in galaxies
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 13 August 1998
It has frequently been suggested in the literature that the stellar IMF in galaxies was top-heavy at early times. This would be plausible physically if the IMF depended on a mass-scale such as the…
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 1992
Cloud fragmentation and stellar masses
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 1 June 1985
Longueurs critiques et masses necessaires a la fragmentation. Effets de rotation et champs magnetiques. Comparaison avec des simulations. Masses critiques dans les nuages interstellaires.…
Thermal physics, cloud geometry and the stellar initial mass function
- R. Larson
- Physics
- 1 May 2005
The thermal properties of star-forming clouds have an important influence on how they fragment into stars, and it is suggested in this paper that the low-mass stellar initial mass function (IMF),…
The Fragmentation of Pre-enriched Primordial Objects
- V. Bromm, A. Ferrara, P. Coppi, R. Larson
- Physics
- 17 April 2001
Recent theoretical investigations have suggested that the formation of the very first stars, forming out of metal-free gas, was fundamentally different from the present-day case. The question then…
The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star-forming Cloud
To constrain the nature of the very first stars, we investigate the collapse and fragmentation of primordial, metal-free gas clouds. We explore the physics of primordial star formation by means of…
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