Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Chemistry and Star Formation
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   Chapter 2 Molecular Clouds Chemistry with Mixing
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   Chapter 3 Collapse and Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds
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   Chapter 4 On the Role of Molecular Hydrogen in Formation and Evolution of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Giant HII-Regions
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   Chapter 5 NLTE H 2 Cooling Function and Protogalactic Evolution
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   Chapter 6 Radiative Shocks and Nonequilibrium Chemistry in the Early Universe: Galaxy and Primordial Star Formation
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   Chapter 7 The Intergalactic Medium: Initial and Boundary Conditions for Galaxy and Primeval Star Formation
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   Chapter 8 Supersonic Turbulent Fragmentation of Giant Molecular Clouds
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    Chapter 9 Turbulence in the Frame of the Evolution of a Self-Gravitating Protocloud
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    Chapter 10 Fragmentation and Supersonic Turbulence in Self-Gravitating Gas Clouds
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    Chapter 11 Fragmentation and Collapse in Magnetic Molecular Clouds: Natural Length Scales and Protostellar Masses
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    Chapter 12 Perception of Interstellar Structure: Facing Complexity
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    Chapter 13 Interstellar Gas Cycling Powered by Star Formation
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    Chapter 14 Star Complex Formation in Differentially Rotating Superclouds
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    Chapter 15 Global Star Formation in the L1630 Molecular Cloud
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    Chapter 16 Observations of Fragmentation
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    Chapter 17 Extrasolar Planetary Material
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    Chapter 18 Star Formation and Dissipation in Galactic Discs
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    Chapter 19 Star Formation in Star Burst Galaxies
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    Chapter 20 The New Brilliant Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy: A Test on the Early Stages of Galaxy Evolution
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    Chapter 21 Star Formation in Elliptical Galaxies
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    Chapter 22 Star Formation in Distant Galaxies
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    Chapter 23 The Early Evolution of Spheroidal Star Systems
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    Chapter 24 Fragmentation of Isothermal and Nonisothermal Protostellar Clouds
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    Chapter 25 Protostellar Core Instabilities
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    Chapter 26 A MultiFluid Hydrodynamical Radiative Model for the Evolution of a Spherical Protogalaxy
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    Chapter 27 Thermal Instabilities in the Warm Interstellar Gas as a Regulating Mechanism of Star Formation
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    Chapter 28 Evolution of the First Protostellar Core
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    Chapter 29 Numerical Hydrodynamics of Cloud Implosion
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    Chapter 30 A Review on IMF Theories
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    Chapter 31 Fragmentation theories and the IMF
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    Chapter 32 The Initial Mass Function of Very Low Mass Stars and the Significance of Brown Dwarfs
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    Chapter 33 Multimodality of Star Formation
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    Chapter 34 Formation of Star Clusters
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    Chapter 35 The Initial Mass Functions of Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters
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    Chapter 36 Are there Large Variations Among IMFS of LMC Clusters?
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    Chapter 37 Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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    Chapter 38 Formation and Disruption of Open Clusters
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    Chapter 39 Radio-Observation Perspectives and Star Formation
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    Chapter 40 Concluding Remarks