Cores to Clusters: Star Formation with Next Generation Telescopes

by M.S. Nanda Kumar (Editor), M. Tafalla (Editor), P. Caselli (Editor)

Overview

Review Articles.- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores.- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation.- Starless Cores.- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions.- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective.- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation.- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters.- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows.- Observations of Accretion onto High Mass Stars.- Disks Around Massive (proto)Stars.- Embedded Clusters.- Massive Protostars and Small Protoclusters.- Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionand Brown Dwarfs Beyond the Solar Vicinity.- Brown Dwarfs.- Contributed Poster Articles.- Revealing the Structure of Lupine Darkness: from Cores to Clusters.- Infrared Study of the Southern Galactic Star Forming Region Associated with Iras 10049-5657.- Studying Protostellar Jets through a Combined Infrared/Optical Spectral Analysis.- Preliminary Results on Newly Discovered Embedded Clusters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441920881
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library , #324
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Review Articles.- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores.- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation.- Starless Cores.- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions.- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective.- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation.- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters.- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows.- Observations of Accretion onto High Mass Stars.- Disks Around Massive (proto)Stars.- Embedded Clusters.- Massive Protostars and Small Prolusters.- Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionand Brown Dwarfs Beyond the Solar Vicinity.- Brown Dwarfs.- Contributed Poster Articles.- Revealing the Structure of Lupine Darkness: from Cores to Clusters.- Infrared Study of the Southern Galactic Star Forming Region Associated with Iras 10049-5657.- Studying Protostellar Jets through a Combined Infrared/Optical Spectral Analysis.- Preliminary Results on Newly Discovered Embedded Clusters.