Disks and Outflows Around Young Stars: Proceedings of a Conference Honouring Hans Elsässer Held at Heidelberg, Germany, 6–9 September 1994

Anneila I. Sargent (auth.), Steven Beckwith, Jakob Staude, Axel Quetz, Antonella Natta (eds.)3540613897, 9783540613893

The subject of the book, the ubiquitous circumstellar disks around very young stars and the corresponding jets of outflowing matter, has recently become one of the hottest areas in astrophysics. The disks are thought to be precursors to planetary systems, and the outflows are thought to be a necessary phase in the formation of a young star, helping the star to get rid of angular momentum and energy as it makes its way onto the main sequence. The possible connections to planetary systems and stellar astrophysics makes these topics especially broad, appealing to generalists and specialists alike. The CD not only contains papers that could not be printed in the book but allows the authors to include a fair amount of data, often displayed as color images.

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Table of contents :
Disk observations….Pages 1-23
Keplerian circumstellar disks in Taurus: The GG Tau Ring and the DM Tau Disk….Pages 24-32
Circumstellar disks in the Trapezium Cluster….Pages 33-43
High resolution observations of disks around protostellar sources with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array….Pages 44-57
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of infrared companions to T Tauri stars….Pages 58-71
Physical processes in circumstellar disks….Pages 72-103
The FU orionis outburst as a thermal accretion event: Theoretical and observational implications….Pages 104-114
Interaction of young binaries with protostellar disks….Pages 115-131
Numerical simulations of the formation of binary and multiple protostellar disks, starting from dynamic initial conditions….Pages 132-142
The quest for evolutionarydiagrams of young stellar objects….Pages 143-168
Neutral gas in the vicinity of Herbig AeBe stars: What can we learn from red-shifted sodium absorption lines?….Pages 169-174
The stellar populations of deeply embedded young clusters: Near-infrared spectral classification….Pages 175-186
Multiplicity in the Opiuchus and Taurus star forming regions….Pages 187-187
A massive “core” associated with the UC H Ii region G31.41+0.31….Pages 188-191
Prediction of stellar mass in star formation: Theory and its application to the orion a cloud….Pages 192-207
Star-disk interactions in small N clusters: How to form binary stars….Pages 208-220
Proper motion measurements in jets from young stars….Pages 221-228
Molecular entrainment by optical jets….Pages 229-235
HH 212: The most beautiful protostellar jet known to date….Pages 236-245
Dust scattering as a diagnostic tool for neutral winds in bipolar outflows—The case of IRAS 08159-3543….Pages 246-254
A long-slit spectroscopic survey of forbidden emission lines in T Tauri stars….Pages 255-260
Aperture synthesis observations of CO outflows in low-mass star forming regions….Pages 261-269
Evolution of outflow activity around low mass embedded young stellar objects….Pages 270-275
Forbidden line emission and correlations with the infra-red excess in Herbig Ae/Be stars….Pages 276-281
Theory of outflows….Pages 282-297
Formation and structure of magnetized protostellar jets….Pages 298-311
On the magnetic collimation of jets from young stellar objects….Pages 312-328
Stellar jets: Spectral diagnostics and fluidodynamic models….Pages 329-343
Concluding remarks….Pages 344-344