Sternentstehung - Star
Formation
Lecture in winter term 2022/2023, 2SWS
Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning & Jonathan Henshaw
Tuesdays 9:15, Start
18.10.2022, Philosophenweg 12, kleiner
Hoersaal (kHS)
The lecture will be given in English.
Registration: To
register for the lecture, please either visit register
or send an email directly to "beuther at mpia.de".
Required credit points can be obtained at the end of the term via oral
examinations.
Literature: Steven Stahler & Francesco Palla: The Formation of
Stars, Wiley-VCH 2004
Tentative Schedule:
18.10 Introduction and overview
(Beuther, pdf)
25.10 Physical processes I
(Beuther, pdf)
08.11 Physical processes II
(Beuther, pdf)
15.11
Molecular clouds as birth places of stars
(Henshaw, pdf)
22.11 Molecular clouds (cont.), Jeans anlysis
(Henshaw, pdf)
29.11 Collapse models I
(Beuther, pdf)
06.12 Collapse
models
II
(Henning, pdf)
13.12 Protostellar evolution & pre-main sequence
(Beuther, pdf)
20.12 Outflows/jets
(Beuther,
pdf)
10.01
Accretion disks I
(Henning, pdf)
17.01 Accretion
disks II
(Henning, pdf)
24.01 High-mass star formation, clusters & IMF
(Henshaw, pdf)
31.01 Extragalactic star formation
(Henning, pdf)
07.02 Planetarium@HdA,
outlook, questions
14.02 Examination week, no star formation lecture