Jets from young stars II: clues from high angular resolution observations

S. Edwards (auth.), Francesca Bacciotti, Leonardo Testi, Emma Whelan (eds.)9783540680314, 3540680314

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations organised by the Marie Curie Research Training Network JETSET: Jet Simulations, Experiments and Theory. After the opening two chapters on jet emission, readers can learn the fundamental background of modern high-spatial-resolution techniques, and how such methods have impacted on our understanding of young stars. The lectures provide hands-on insight into
Observing from space, e.g. from HST and in the future JWST, and from the ground with adaptive optics,The use of interferometers at millimetre and infrared wavelengths,Spectro-astrometryImage analysis and spectral diagnostic techniquesHigh-Angular Resolution studies of the inner regions of circumstellar disks, which play a fundamental role in jet launching.

The books’ practical approach makes it an outstanding and extremely useful textbook for PhD students and young researchers in astronomy.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XII
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
Stellar Jets: Clues to the Process of Star and Planet Formation….Pages 3-13
Measurement of Physical Conditions in Stellar Jets….Pages 15-42
Front Matter….Pages 43-43
Basic Concepts and Parameters of Astronomical AO Systems….Pages 45-78
IR Spectroscopy of Jets: Diagnostics and HAR Observations….Pages 79-104
Observing YSO Jets with Adaptive Optics: Techniques and Main Results….Pages 105-121
Spectro-astrometry: The Method, its Limitations, and Applications….Pages 123-149
Observations of YSO Jets from Space: HST and Beyond….Pages 151-171
Observations and Models of X-ray Emission from Jets of Infant Stars….Pages 173-190
Front Matter….Pages 191-191
Principles of Interferometry….Pages 193-218
(Sub)mm Interferometry Applications in Star Formation Research….Pages 219-239
Observing Young Stellar Objects with Very Large Telescope Interferometer….Pages 241-255
Presentation of AMBER/VLTI Data Reduction….Pages 257-272
High Angular Resolution Observations of Disks….Pages 273-286
Back Matter….Pages 287-291