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The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 24–27 April 2001

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Table of contents (63 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores

    • Malcolm Walmsley, Paola Caselli, Antonio Zucconi, Daniele Galli
    Pages 29-36
  3. Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View

    • João Alves, Charles Lada, Elizabeth Lada, Marco Lombardi, Edwin A. Bergin
    Pages 37-44
  4. The Physical Structure of a Prestellar Core in IC 5146

    • Carsten Kramer, João Alves, Charles Lada
    Pages 45-52
  5. From Infall to Rotation Around Young Stellar Objects

    • Michiel R. Hogerheijde, Adwin C. A. Boogert, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Geoffrey A. Blake
    Pages 53-60
  6. Mass Spectra from Turbulent Fragmentation

    • Ralf S. Klessen
    Pages 61-66
  7. From Molecular Clouds to Planets: Prospects for ALMA

    • Ewine F. van Dishoeck
    Pages 67-78
  8. Continuum Polarization as a Tool: A Perspective for VLT and ALMA

    • Thomas Henning, Ralf Launhardt, Bringfried Stecklum, Sebastian Wolf
    Pages 79-84
  9. The Mineralogy and Magnetism of Star and Planet Formation as Revealed by Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry

    • Christopher M. Wright, David K. Aitken, Craig H. Smith, Patrick F. Roche, Rene J. Laureijs
    Pages 85-92
  10. From the Sun to Jupiter: Evolution of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs down to Planetary Masses

    • Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, France Allard, Peter Hauschildt
    Pages 93-100
  11. Core Collapse and the Formation of Binaries

    • Andreas M. Burkert, Peter Bodenheimer
    Pages 101-106
  12. The Formation of Brown Dwarfs

    • Bo Reipurth
    Pages 114-120
  13. Disk Orientations in PMS Binary Systems Determined Through Polarimetric Imaging with UT1/FORS

    • Jean-Louis Monin, François Ménard, Nicolas Peretto
    Pages 121-126
  14. Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs in Cha I

    • Viki Joergens, Eike Guenther, Ralph Neuhäuser, Fernando Comerón, Nuria Huélamo, João Alves et al.
    Pages 127-133
  15. Imaging with the VLT

    • Ralf Siebenmorgen
    Pages 134-138
  16. The Formation of a Cluster of Stars and Brown Dwarfs in a Turbulent Molecular Cloud

    • Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, Volker Bromm
    Pages 139-146
  17. Submm and MIR Imaging of Protostellar Clusters

    • Rolf Chini, Markus Nielbock, Ralf Siebenmorgen
    Pages 147-154

About this book

Many important observational clues about our understanding of how stars and planets form in the interior of molecular clouds have been amassed using recent technological developments. ESO's very large telescope promises to be a major step forward in the investigation of stellar nurseries and infant stars. This volume collects papers from the leaders in this very timely field of astrophysical research. It presents theoretical and a host of observational results and many papers show the plans for future observations.

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