Overview
- 2nd edition of successful book
- Outlines recent advances and contemporary research on the theory of star formation
- Includes new chapters on massive star formation, proto-planetary disks and observations of young exoplanets
- Describes new observations, specifically from the current array of space observatories
- Provides updates in star formation theory, cloud fragmentation, dust, and circumstellar disks
- This 2nd edition now hosts some sets of problems and their solutions suitable for graduate course work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- Chandra X-ray Telescope
- Cosmological star formation
- Early Evolution of Stars
- Eta Carina
- Formation of Stars
- Formation of solar system
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Interstellar Matter
- Interstellar clouds
- Massive star formation
- Planet formation
- Radiative Signatures of YSOs
- Spitzer Telescope
- Star Forming Regions
- Star formation book
- Starburst regions
- Starbursts
- Stellar evolution
- YSOs
- Young Exoplanets protoplanetary disks
- Young exoplanets
- Young stellar objects
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"In ten chapters, Schulz (MIT) does an excellent job developing the story historically, explaining how stars are formed from gas and dust in interstellar nurseries located in molecular clouds. … It has equations and derivations, and cites background reading (944 references). Included are 18 color plates seven pages of abbreviations, 8 pages of variables, constants and units, and a 16-page index. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division (senior) undergraduates through professionals." (W. E. Howard, Choice, November, 2006)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Formation and Early Evolution of Stars
Book Subtitle: From Dust to Stars and Planets
Authors: Norbert S. Schulz
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23926-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23925-0Published: 25 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44168-4Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23926-7Published: 24 May 2012
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 518
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK