Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation: Proceedings of the Workshop on ‘Physical Processes in Fragmentation and Star Formation’, Held in Monteporzio Catone (Rome), Italy, June 5–11, 1989

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Chemistry and Star Formation....Pages 3-16
Molecular Clouds Chemistry with Mixing....Pages 17-28
Collapse and Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds....Pages 29-34
On the Role of Molecular Hydrogen in Formation and Evolution of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Giant HII-Regions....Pages 35-47
NLTE H 2 Cooling Function and Protogalactic Evolution....Pages 49-54
Radiative Shocks and Nonequilibrium Chemistry in the Early Universe: Galaxy and Primordial Star Formation....Pages 55-70
The Intergalactic Medium: Initial and Boundary Conditions for Galaxy and Primeval Star Formation....Pages 71-79
Supersonic Turbulent Fragmentation of Giant Molecular Clouds....Pages 81-86
Turbulence in the Frame of the Evolution of a Self-Gravitating Protocloud....Pages 87-101
Fragmentation and Supersonic Turbulence in Self-Gravitating Gas Clouds....Pages 103-115
Fragmentation and Collapse in Magnetic Molecular Clouds: Natural Length Scales and Protostellar Masses....Pages 117-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Perception of Interstellar Structure: Facing Complexity....Pages 151-177
Interstellar Gas Cycling Powered by Star Formation....Pages 179-186
Star Complex Formation in Differentially Rotating Superclouds....Pages 187-192
Global Star Formation in the L1630 Molecular Cloud....Pages 193-199
Observations of Fragmentation....Pages 201-209
Extrasolar Planetary Material....Pages 211-216
Star Formation and Dissipation in Galactic Discs....Pages 217-222
Star Formation in Star Burst Galaxies....Pages 223-234
The New Brilliant Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy: A Test on the Early Stages of Galaxy Evolution....Pages 235-240
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Star Formation in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 241-255
Star Formation in Distant Galaxies....Pages 257-265
The Early Evolution of Spheroidal Star Systems....Pages 267-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Fragmentation of Isothermal and Nonisothermal Protostellar Clouds....Pages 279-292
Protostellar Core Instabilities....Pages 293-301
A MultiFluid Hydrodynamical Radiative Model for the Evolution of a Spherical Protogalaxy....Pages 303-317
Thermal Instabilities in the Warm Interstellar Gas as a Regulating Mechanism of Star Formation....Pages 319-324
Evolution of the First Protostellar Core....Pages 325-332
Numerical Hydrodynamics of Cloud Implosion....Pages 333-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
A Review on IMF Theories....Pages 343-355
Fragmentation theories and the IMF....Pages 357-366
The Initial Mass Function of Very Low Mass Stars and the Significance of Brown Dwarfs....Pages 367-380
Multimodality of Star Formation....Pages 381-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Formation of Star Clusters....Pages 389-400
The Initial Mass Functions of Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters....Pages 401-414
Are there Large Variations Among IMFS of LMC Clusters?....Pages 415-419
Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 421-439
Formation and Disruption of Open Clusters....Pages 441-449
Front Matter....Pages 451-457
Radio-Observation Perspectives and Star Formation....Pages 459-460
Concluding Remarks....Pages 461-463
Back Matter....Pages 465-469