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Steven W. Stahler and Francesco Palla
The Formation of Stars
The Formation of Stars.
Steven W. Stahler and Francesco Palla
Copyright © 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
ISBN: 3-527-40559-3
Steven W. Stahler and Francesco Palla
The Formation of Stars
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Steven W. Stahler
University of California
Berkeley, USA
e-mail: stahler@astro.berkeley.edu
Francesco Palla
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico
di Arcetri
Florence, Italy
e-mail: palla@arcetri.astro.it
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Cover Picture
T. A. Rector, B. Wolpa, M. Hanna;
AURA/NOAO/NSF:
The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. Massive young
stars in the central cluster have cleared a hole
in the cloud. Ionizing radiation from these stars
causes surrounding gas to glow brightly.
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ISBN 3-527-40559-3
Contents
Preface
XI
I Star Formation in Our Galaxy
1O ew 2
1.1 StellarNurseries:Orion ............................. 2
1.2 StellarNurseries:Taurus-Auriga ........................ 10
1.3 StarsandTheirEvolution ............................ 15
1.4 TheGalacticContext .............................. 25
2 The Interstellar Medium 32
2.1 GalacticGasandItsDetection ......................... 32
2.2 PhasesoftheInterstellarMedium........................ 38
2.3 InterstellarDust:ExtinctionandThermalEmission .............. 42
2.4 InterstellarDust:PropertiesoftheGrains.................... 51
3 Molecular Clouds 60
3.1 Giant Molecular Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.2 VirialTheoremAnalysis............................. 68
3.3 DenseCoresandBokGlobules ......................... 73
4 Young Stellar Systems 88
4.1 EmbeddedClusters ............................... 88
4.2 TandRAssociations .............................. 97
4.3 OBAssociations................................. 107
4.4 OpenClusters .................................. 117
4.5
The Initial Mass Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
II Physical Processes in Molecular Clouds
5 Molecular Transitions: Basic Physics 135
5.1 InterstellarMolecules .............................. 135
5.2
Hydrogen (H
2
).................................. 141
5.3
Carbon Monoxide (CO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.4
Ammonia (NH
3
)................................. 151
5.5
Water (H
2
O)................................... 154
5.6
Hydroxyl (OH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
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