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  • NAM2019
    • Registration
    • Key Dates & Outline Schedule
    • Practical Information
    • Exhibitors
    • Grants & Bursaries
    • Contacts
  • Science
    • Science Programme
    • Parallel Sessions
    • Plenary Talks
    • Community Session
    • Special Lunches
    • Posters
    • Presenter Guidelines
  • Social
    • What's On
    • Welcome Reception
    • RAS Awards Dinner
  • Media
  • Outreach
    • Outreach and Education Day
    • Fringe Event
    • School Visit Day
  • Lancaster
    • Travel
    • Accommodation
    • Childcare
    • Campus Map
    • About Lancaster
    • Code of Conduct

Parallel sessions

Sessions

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2019-02-01 13:31:43
Universality Challenged: the stellar Initial Mass Function and its possible variations
The possibility that the stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) might depend on star-formation environment, and vary with location and/or over time, is a vigorously debated topic, and one with relevance to many fields of astrophysics. This parallel session at NAM2019 will address this subject, with a broad scope to include: direct (resolved photometry) and indirect (integrated-light spectroscopy, dynamics/lensing) methods; the high- and low-mass IMF regimes; implications for star-formation and galaxy-evolution models. This will be the first IMF-focussed session at NAM since 2014, and provide a forum for discussing progress in the past half-decade, and priorities for future research.
R. Smith, M. Gunawardhana

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