The Labyrinth of Star Formation: 36 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings)

The Labyrinth of Star Formation: 36 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings)

by Dimitris Stamatellos (Editor), Simon Goodwin (Editor), Derek Ward-Thompson (Editor)

Synopsis

This volume contains the proceedings from the conference The Labyrinth of Star Formation that was held in Crete, Greece, in June 2012, to honour the contributions to the study of star formation made by Professor Anthony Whitworth of Cardiff University.

The book covers many aspects of theoretical and observational star formation: low-mass star formation; young circumstellar discs; computational methods; triggered star formation; the stellar initial mass function; high-mass star formation and stellar clusters. Each section starts with a review paper, followed by papers discussing recent theoretical and observational work.

This volume summarises our current understanding of star formation and is useful for both graduate students and researchers alike.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 556
Edition: 2014
Publisher: Springer
Published: 16 Apr 2014

ISBN 10: 331903040X
ISBN 13: 9783319030401

Author Bio

Dimitris Stamatellos is Research Associate at Cardiff University, UK. His research interests include star and planet formation, brown dwarf and planet formation from disc fragmentation, computational radiative transfer, smoothed particle hydrodynamics, and radiative transfer in hydrodynamic simulations, to name a few.

Simon Goodwin is Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include hydrodynamic simulations of star formation, the formation of very-low mass stars and brown dwarfs, the formation and evolution of multiple star systems and the formation and early evolution of star clusters.

Derek Ward-Thompson is Director of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of Maths, Physics and Astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire and President of the UK Society of Popular Science.