Accretion Processes in Star Formation

Informationen zum Autor Lee Hartmann is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan and a vice-president of the American Astronomical Society. He is an expert on star formation and protoplanetary disk evolution. Klappentext A complete account of the underlying physical processes of accretion for graduate students and researchers.Now containing material on molecular clouds, binaries, star clusters and the stellar initial mass function (IMF), disk evolution and planet formation, this new edition is a comprehensive account of the underlying physical processes of accretion for graduate students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview; 2. Beginnings: molecular clouds; 3. Initial conditions for protostellar collapse; 4. Protostellar cloud collapse; 5. Protostellar collapse: observations vs theory; 6. Binaries, clusters, and the IMF; 7. Disk accretion; 8. The disks of pre-main sequence stars; 9. The FU Orionis objects; 10. Disk winds, jets, and magnetospheric accretion; 11. Disk accretion and early stellar evolution; 12. Disk evolution and planet formation; Appendixes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Hartmann, Lee (Professor of Astronomy Hartmann
• Assisted by: Lee Hartmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521531993
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53199-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Astrophysics; Cambridge Astrophysics; Cambridge Astrophysics, Series
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy