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Massive star formation : observations confront theory : proceedings of a conference held at the Heidelberg Convention Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 10-14 September 2007
- Title
- Massive star formation : observations confront theory : proceedings of a conference held at the Heidelberg Convention Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 10-14 September 2007 / edited by Henrik Beuther, Hendrik Linz, and Thomas Henning.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xx, 470 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 387
- Uniform Title
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 387.
- Subject
- Stars > Formation > Congresses
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and author index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Initial Conditions for Massive Star Formation -- Initial Conditions for Massive Star Formation -- Flow-Driven Formation of Massive Cores: Rapid & Efficient? -- Massive Infrared-Quiet Dense Cores: Unveiling the Initial Conditions of High-Mass Star Formation -- Searching for Massive Pre-Stellar Cores through Observations of N2H[superscript +] and N[subscript 2]D[superscript +] -- Cold Supersonic Turbulence in Massive Cores -- Infrared Dark Clouds -- From Stellar Protoclustors to Infrared Dark Clouds -- Determining the Relative Evolutionary Stages of Very Young Massive Star Formation Regions -- Pt. 2. Observational Constraints and Feedback Processes -- Infall and the Formation of a Massive Star -- An Infrared View of (Candidate Accretion) Disks around Massive Young Stars -- Angular Momentum and the Formation of Massive Stars -- Binaries in Massive Star Formation -- Recent Astrochemical Results on Star-Forming Regions -- Southern Surveys of Hot Cores -- Maser Polarization and Magnetic Fields during Massive Star Formation -- Periodic Variations in Class II Methanol Masers -- Dissecting Massive YSOs with Mid-Infrared Interferometry -- The Innermost Circumstellar Environment of Massive Young Stellar Objects Revealed by Infrared Interferometry -- Feedback Processes: A Theoretical Perspective -- Outflows from Massive Stars -- Outflow and Accretion in Massive Star-Forming Regions -- Dynamic Evidence of Triggered Star Formation -- Pt. 3. Theoretical Concepts -- Theoretical Developments in Understanding Massive Star Formation -- Collapse, Fragmentation, and Accretion in Massive Cores -- The Conditions for Competitive Accretion -- Filaments, Collapse and Outflows in Massive Star Formation -- Ionized Accretion Flows in Massive Star Formation -- Hypercompact HII Regions -- Massive Star-Forming Regions: Turbulent Support or Global Collapse? -- Stellar Collisions in Young Clusters: Formation of (Very) Massive Stars? -- Evolution of Massive Protostars with High Accretion Rates -- Embedded, Accreting Disks in Massive Star Formation -- Evidence for Disks around Young Massive Stars from 3D Radiative Transfer Image Modeling -- SPH Simulations of Clustered Star Formation with Dust and Gas Energetics -- Primordial Mass Segregation in Starburst Stellar Clusters -- SED Modeling of Young Massive Stars -- Models for Dust and Molecular Emission of High-Mass Protostars -- The Future of Theory and Simulati.on in High-Mass Star Formation -- Pt. 4. Clustered Star Formation and Massive Star Formation Throughout the Galaxy -- Spitzer-IRAC GLIMPSE of High-Mass Protostellar Objects -- Probing the Early Evolution of Young High-Mass Stars -- Massive Star Formation triggered by Galactic HII Regions -- Turmoil in Orion: The Nearest Massive Protostar -- X-Ray Properties of Very Young Massive Stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster -- Massive Star Formation Near Sgr A* and Bimodal Star Formation in the Nuclear Disk -- The Starburst Cluster Westerlund 1 and its Galactic Siblings - Observation Confronts Theory -- The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy: Something Old, Something New -- The RMS Survey: A Galaxy-wide Sample of Massive Young Stellar Objects -- The CORNISH Survey of the Galactic Plane -- Pt. 5. Extragalactic Star Formation -- The Properties of Dense Molecular Gas in the Milky Way and Galaxies -- Star Formation in The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey -- Were All Massive Stars Born in OB Associations and Clusters? -- Pt. 6. Panel Discussions, Poster-Award Talks, and Summary -- Panel Discussion I: What is a Massive Protostar? Theoretical Definitions, Observational Criteria, and Evolutionary Sequence -- Summary of Panel Discussion II: Theoretical Models and Observational Constraints in High-Mass Star Formation -- VLTI/MIDI Observations of the Massive Protostellar Candidate NGC 3603 IRS9A -- Suzaku X-ray Spectroscopy of a Peculiar Hot Star Near the Galactic Center -- Pt. 7. List of Posters.
- ISBN
- 9781583816424
- 1583816429
- LCCN
- 2008924891
- OCLC
- ocn233537544
- 233537544
- SCSB-5418313
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries