Publications of Richard B. Larson since 1992:

Galaxy Formation and Evolution.  R. B. Larson, 1992, in “Star Formation in Stellar Systems”, lectures presented at a winter school in Tenerife, Spain, December 1991, eds. G. Tenorio-Tagle, M. Prieto, & F. Sanchez  (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge),  p. 125.  (PDF)

The Origin of the Hubble Sequence.  R. B. Larson, 1992, in “Physics of Nearby Galaxies: Nature or Nurture?”, 12th Moriond Astrophysics Meeting, Les Arcs, France, March 1992, eds. T. X. Thuan, C. Balkowski, & J. T. T. Van (Editions Frontieres, Gif-sur-Yvette),  p. 487.  (PDF)

Present-Day Cluster Formation.  R. B. Larson, 1993, in “The Globular Cluster-Galaxy Connection”, 11th Santa Cruz Summer Workshop, Santa Cruz, California, July 1992, eds. G. H. Smith & J. P. Brodie (ASP Conference Series Vol. 48, ASP, San Francisco),  p. 675.  (PDF)

The Dispersal of Iron Through the Interstellar Medium.  N. P. T. Bateman & R. B. Larson, 1993, Astrophysical Journal, 407, 634.  (PDF)

The Evolution of Molecular Clouds.  R. B. Larson, 1994, in “The Structure and Content of Molecular Clouds: 25 Years of Molecular Radioastronomy”, meeting at Ringberg Castle, Germany, April 1993, eds. T. L. Wilson & K. J. Johnston (Springer-Verlag, Berlin),  p. 13.  (PDF)

Summary: Inflows and Outbursts in Galaxies.   R. B. Larson, 1994, in “Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies”, meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, April 1993, ed. I. Shlosman (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge),  p. 489.  (PDF)

Hierarchical Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 1994, in “Clouds, Cores, and Low Mass Stars", Fourth Haystack Observatory Conference, Westford, Massachusetts, May 1994, eds. D. P. Clemens & R. Barvainis (ASP Conference Series Vol. 65, ASP, San Francisco),  p. 125.  (PDF)

Star Formation in Groups.  R. B. Larson, 1995, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 272, 213.  (PDF)

Star Formation and Galactic Evolution.   R. B. Larson, 1996, in “The Interplay Between Massive Star Formation, the ISM and Galaxy Evolution”, 11th IAP Astrophysics Meeting, Paris, July 1995, eds. D. Kunth, B. Guiderdoni, M. Heydari-Malayeri, & T. X. Thuan (Editions Frontieres, Gif-sur-Yvette),  p. 3.  (PDF)

Globular Clusters as Fossils of Galaxy Formation.   R. B. Larson, 1996, in “Formation of the Galactic Halo ... Inside and Out”, meeting in Tucson, Arizona, October 1995,  eds. H. Morrison & A. Sarajedini (ASP Conference Series Vol. 92, ASP, San Francisco),  p. 241.  (PDF)

Formation of Small and Large Stellar Systems.   R. B. Larson, 1997, in “Structure and Evolution of Stellar Systems”, conference in Petrozavodsk, Russia, August 1995, eds. T. A. Agekian, A. A. Mullari, & V. V. Orlov (St. Petersburg University Press, St. Petersburg),  p. 48.  (PDF)

Summary: Star Formation Near and Far.   R. B. Larson, 1997, in “Star Formation Near and Far”, Seventh Astrophysics Conference, College Park, Maryland, October 1996, eds. S. S. Holt & L. G. Mundy (AIP Conference Proceedings 393, AIP, Woodbury, NY),  p. 617.  (PDF)

Theoretical Aspects of Star Formation.   R. B. Larson, 1998, unpublished paper presented at a workshop on “The Orion Complex Revisited” at Ringberg Castle, Germany, June 1997. (The proceedings were to have been published in the ASP Conference Series, but were never published.  For a more recent review of some of the same topics, see “The Physics of Star Formation” published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2003.)  (PDF)

Early Star Formation and the Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function in Galaxies.  R. B. Larson, 1998, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 301, 569.  (PDF)

The Stellar Initial Mass Function: Constraints from Young Clusters, and Theoretical Perspectives.  M. R. Meyer, F. C. Adams, L. A. Hillenbrand, J. M. Carpenter, & R. B. Larson, 2000, in “Protostars and Planets IV”, conference in Santa Barbara, California, July 1998, eds. V. Mannings, A. P. Boss, & S. S. Russell (University of Arizona Press, Tucson),  p. 121.  (PDF)

The Stellar Initial Mass Function.   R. B. Larson, 1999, in “Star Formation 1999”, meeting in Nagoya, Japan, June 1999, ed. T. Nakamoto (Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Nobeyama),  p. 336.  (PDF)

Forming the First Stars in the Universe: The Fragmentation of Primordial Gas.  V. Bromm, P. S. Coppi, & R. B. Larson, 1999, Astrophysical Journal, 527, L5.  (PDF)

The First Stars: Final Remarks.  R. B. Larson, 2000, in “The First Stars”, ESO/MPA workshop in Garching, Germany, August 1999, eds. A. Weiss, T. G. Abel, & V. Hill (Springer, Berlin),  p. 343.  (PDF)

The Formation of the First Stars.  R. B. Larson, 2000, in “Star Formation from the Small to the Large Scale”, 33rd ESLAB Symposium, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, November 1999, eds. F. Favata, A. A. Kaas, & A. Wilson (ESA SP-445, ESA Publications, Noordwijk),  p. 13.  (PDF)

Implications of Binary Properties for Theories of Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 2001, in “The Formation of Binary Stars”, IAU Symposium 200, Potsdam, Germany, April 2000, eds. H. Zinnecker & R. D. Mathieu (ASP, San Francisco), p. 3.  (PDF)

The Fragmentation of Pre-Enriched Primordial Objects.  V. Bromm, A. Ferrara, P. S. Coppi, & R. B. Larson, 2001, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 328, 969.  (PDF)

The First Stars in the Universe.  R. B. Larson & V. Bromm, 2001, Scientific American, 285, No. 6, p. 64 (PDF).    Reprinted and updated in “The Once and Future Cosmos", Scientific American Special Edition, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2002, p. 4 and in “The Secret Lives of Stars”, Scientific American Special Edition, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004, p. 4 (PDF)

The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star-Forming Cloud.  V. Bromm, P. S. Coppi, & R. B. Larson, 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 564, 23.  (PDF)

From Darkness To Light: The First Stars in the Universe.  V. Bromm, P. S. Coppi, & R. B. Larson, 2002, in “Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology”, MPA/ESO workshop in Garching, Germany, August 2001,  p. 316.  (PDF)

The Role of Tidal Interactions in Star Formation.   R. B. Larson, 2002, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 332, 155.  (PDF)

Summary: Modes of Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 2002, in “Modes of Star Formation and the Origin of Field Populations”, meeting in Heidelberg, Germany, October 2000, eds. E. K. Grebel & W. Brandner (ASP Conference Series Vol. 285, ASP, San Francisco),  p. 442.  (PDF)

The Stellar Initial Mass Function and Beyond.   R. B. Larson, 2003, in “Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum”, IAOC Workshop in La Serena, Chile, March 2002, eds. J. M. De Buizer & N. S. van der Bliek (ASP Conference Series Vol. 287, ASP, San Francisco),  p. 65.  (PDF)

The Physics of Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 2003, Reports on Progress in Physics, 66, 1651.  (PDF)

The Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei. I. Black Hole Merging in a Spherical Gas Cloud.  A. Escala, R. B. Larson, P. S. Coppi, & D. Mardones, 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 765.  (PDF)  (Press Release)

The First Stars.  V. Bromm & R. B. Larson, 2004, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42, 79.  (PDF)

Understanding the IMF.  R. B. Larson, 2005, in “The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later”, meeting at Abbazia di Spineto, Siena, Italy, May 2004, eds. E. Corbelli, F. Palla, & H. Zinnecker (Springer, Dordrecht),  p. 329.  (PDF)

The Stellar Mass Spectrum from Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation.  R. Klessen, K. Jappsen, R. Larson, Y. Li, M.-M. Mac Low, 2005, in “The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later”, meeting at Abbazia di Spineto, Siena, Italy, May 2004, eds. E. Corbelli, F. Palla, & H. Zinnecker (Springer, Dordrecht),  p. 363.  (PDF)

Thermal Physics, Cloud Geometry, and the Stellar Initial Mass Function.  R. B. Larson, 2005, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 359, 211.  (PDF)

The Stellar Mass Spectrum from Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation.  A.-K. Jappsen, R. S. Klessen, R. B. Larson, Y. Li, & M.-M. Mac Low, 2005, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 435, 611.  (PDF)

The Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei. II. Black Hole Merging in a Nuclear Gas Disk.  A. Escala, R. B. Larson, P. S. Coppi, & D. Mardones, 2005, Astrophysical Journal, 630, 152.  (PDF)

Understanding the Stellar Initial Mass Function.   R. B. Larson, 2006, in “XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy”, Pucon, Chile, December 2005, eds. L. Infante, M. Rubio, & S. Torres-Peimbert (Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 26),  p. 55.  (PDF)

The Fate of Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers.  A. Escala, R. B. Larson, P. S. Coppi, & D. Mardones, 2006, in “XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy", Pucon, Chile, December 2005, eds. L. Infante, M. Rubio, & S. Torres-Peimbert (Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 26),  p. 141.  (PDF)

The Origin of the Initial Mass Function.  I. A. Bonnell, R. B. Larson, & H. Zinnecker, 2007, in “Protostars and Planets V”, conference at Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 2005, eds. B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, & K. Keil (University of Arizona Press, Tucson),  p. 149.  (PDF)

Insights from Simulations of Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 2007, Reports on Progress in Physics, 70, 337.  (PDF)

Stability of Galactic Gas Disks and the Formation of Massive Clusters.  A. Escala & R. B. Larson, 2008, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 685, L31.  (PDF)

Angular Momentum and the Formation of Stars and Black Holes.  R. B. Larson, 2010, Reports on Progress in Physics, 73, 014901.  (PDF)

The Role of Column Density in the Formation of Stars and Black Holes.  R. B. Larson, 2010, Nature Physics, 6, 96.  (PDF) (journal

Historical Perspective on Computational Star Formation.  R. B. Larson, 2011, in “Computational Star Formation”, IAU Symposium 270, Barcelona, June 2010, eds. J. Alves, B. G. Elmegreen, J. M. Girart, & V. Trimble (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge),  p. 1.   (PDF)

Hayashi and the Thermal Physics of Star-Forming Clouds.  R. B. Larson, 2012, in “FIRST STARS IV – From Hayashi to the Future”, meeting in Kyoto, Japan, May 2012, in honor of Chushiro Hayashi, eds. M. Umemura & K. Omukai (AIP Conference Proceedings 1480, Melville, NY),  p. 38.   (PDF)