Accretion Processes in Star Formation

By: Lee Hartmann

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Paperback | 20 November 2008 | Edition Number 2

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Our understanding of the formation of stars and planetary systems has changed greatly since the first edition of this book was published. This new edition has been thoroughly updated, and now includes material on molecular clouds, binaries, star clusters and the stellar initial mass function (IMF), disk evolution and planet formation. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the formation of stars and planetary systems, from their beginnings in cold clouds of molecular gas to their emergence as new suns with planet-forming disks. At each stage gravity induces an inward accretion of mass, and this is a central theme for the book. The author brings together current observations, rigorous treatments of the relevant astrophysics, and 150 illustrations, to clarify the sequence of events in star and planet formation. It is a comprehensive account of the underlying physical processes of accretion for graduate students and researchers.

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"Readers with the background to appreciate the mathematical and astrophysical arguments the author presents will find this text a valuable review of current thinking on star formation and proto-stellar disk evolution." - The Meteorological Society

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Overview	p. 1
Initial conditions for protostellar collapse	p. 16
Protostellar cloud collapse	p. 35
Protostellar collapse: observations vs theory	p. 52
Disk accretion	p. 77
The disks and envelopes of T Tauri stars	p. 102
The FU Orionis objects	p. 132
Disk winds and magnetospheric accretion	p. 154
Disk accretion and early stellar evolution	p. 189
Basic hydrodynamic and MHD equations	p. 211
Jeans masses and fragmentation	p. 213
Basic radiative transfer	p. 216
List of symbols	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 224
Index	p. 235
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