Star and Planet Formation -- Stern- und Planetenentstehung

Lecture in summer term 2007, 2SWS

Henrik Beuther & Sebastian Wolf

Mondays 15:00 PM (s.t.), Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Moenchhofstr. 12-14, Seminarraum

Depending on demand, this lecture will be given in english.

Literature: Steven Stahler & Francesco Palla: The Formation of Stars, Wiley-VCH 2004

Tentative Schedule:

16.4   Introduction (H.B.)
23.4   Physical processes, heating and cooling, radiative transfer (H.B.)
30.4   Gravitational collapse and early protostellar evolution I (H.B.)
07.5   Gravitational collapse and early protostellar evolution II (H.B.)
14.5   Protostellar and pre-main sequence evolution (H.B.)
21.5   Outflows and jets (H.B.)
28.5     Pfingsten
04.6   Cluster, the initial mass function (IMF), massive star formation (H.B.)
11.6   Protoplanetary disk: Observations + models I (S.W.)
18.6   Gas in disks, molecules, chemistry, keplerian motion (H.B.)
25.6   Protoplanetary disk: Observations + models II (S.W.)
02.7   Accretion, transport processes, local structure and stability (S.W.)
09.7   Planet formation scenarios (S.W.)
16.7   Extrasolar planets: Searching for other worlds (S.W.)
23.7   Accretion disks (S.W.)