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I summarize recent ideas on the necessity of two separate events of star formation in many Globular Clusters to explain the star-to-star variations in elemental abundances, and show the consequences of this suggestion on the initial mass function of their stars.
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D’Antona, F. (2005). Two Stages of Star Formation in Globular Clusters and the IMF. In: Corbelli, E., Palla, F., Zinnecker, H. (eds) The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 327. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7_12
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