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Many processes and many types of observations are relevant to an understanding of star formation. In these lectures I shall attempt to sketch briefly some of the problems involved and some results, mostly theoretical, of studies of star formation, concentrating on qualitative or “back-of-the-envelope” aspects. The first lecture will consider the collapse of individual protostars, as understood mainly from spherical collapse models; the second will consider multidimensional collapse and the fragmentation problem; and the third will consider some aspects of star formation on a galactic scale.
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Larson, R.B. (1978). Star Formation and Related Topics. In: Setti, G., Fazio, G.G. (eds) Infrared Astronomy. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9815-5_6
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