The Labyrinth of Star Formation

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Life and Times of Anthony Peter Whitworth....Pages 3-12
Working with Ant Whitworth....Pages 13-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Formation of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs....Pages 17-24
From the Companion Mass Ratio Distribution to the Planetary Mass Function: Using Multiple Systems to Constrain Models of Star and Planet Formation....Pages 25-29
Radio Emission from YSOs: Tackling the (Reverse) Luminosity Problem....Pages 31-34
Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Protostellar Core Formation....Pages 35-39
Implications of Protostellar Disk Fragmentation....Pages 41-44
An X-Shooter Analysis of Chromospheric Activity of Class III Low Mass Sources....Pages 45-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
A Review of Circumstellar Discs....Pages 51-57
The Formation and Early Evolution of Protostars and Protoplanetary Disks....Pages 59-62
The Lifetime of Protoplanetary Discs: Observations and Theory....Pages 63-68
Protostellar Disk Formation and Angular Momentum Transport During Magnetized Core Collapse....Pages 69-73
Disc Formation in Turbulent Cloud Cores: Circumventing the Magnetic Braking Catastrophe....Pages 75-79
Magnetohydrodynamics with Time-Dependent Ionization Degree in Protoplanetary Disks with Grain Evolution....Pages 81-83
The Effect of Mass Accretion for Formation and Thermal Evolution of Circumstellar Disks....Pages 85-87
Disk Survival in the Extremely Massive Association Cygnus OB2....Pages 89-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Review of Computational Star Formation....Pages 95-100
Modelling Magnetised Protostellar Jets with SPH....Pages 101-104
Impact of Tangled Magnetic Fields on Star Formation....Pages 105-108
Modelling Star Formation in Ophiuchus....Pages 109-113
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
On the Origin of Interstellar Turbulence: Less SNe and More Galactic Dynamics....Pages 115-119
The Non-linear Thin Shell Instability in Cloud–Cloud Collisions....Pages 121-125
Radiative Transfer in Star Formation: Testing FLD and Hybrid Methods....Pages 127-131
Expected Observations of Star Formation Process: From Molecular Cloud Core to First Hydrostatic Core....Pages 133-137
Dust Continuum Observations of Protostars: Constraining Properties with Simulations....Pages 139-143
Gravitationally Contracting Clouds and Their Star Formation Rate....Pages 145-150
Spiral Shocks, Cooling, and the Origin of Star Formation Rates....Pages 151-155
A New Set of Model Spectral Energy Distributions for Young Stellar Objects....Pages 157-160
The Entropy Condition of GodunovSPH....Pages 161-163
Three-Dimensional Simulation of Molecular Cloud Formation....Pages 165-166
Estimating the Galactic Coronal Density via Ram-Pressure Stripping from Dwarf Satellites....Pages 167-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Star Formation Triggered by Feedback from Massive Stars....Pages 173-179
Triggered Star Formation....Pages 181-184
Filamentary Cold Structure from Colliding Supershells....Pages 185-189
Triggering Star Formation: From the Pillars of Creation to the Formation of Our Solar System....Pages 191-194
Triggering, Suppressing and Redistributing Star Formation....Pages 195-198
Gravitational Fragmentation of the Carina Flare Supershell....Pages 199-203
A Nebula in Your Computer: Simulating the Physics and Chemistry of an H ii Region....Pages 205-208
The Photoevaporation of a Neutral Structure by an EUV+FUV Radiation Field....Pages 209-212
Testing Models of Triggered Star Formation: Theory and Observation....Pages 213-214
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Effects of a Momentum Driven Stellar Wind on the Surrounding ISM....Pages 215-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
First Results from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey in Taurus and Comparison with Other Clouds....Pages 219-224
Unraveling the Labyrinth of Star Formation with Herschel ....Pages 225-231
 CALYPSO : An IRAM Plateau de Bure Survey of Class 0 Protostars....Pages 233-237
Initial Results from SCUBA-2....Pages 239-243
Surveying Dense Gas with Bolocam: There Are No Pre-stellar Massive Clusters in the First Quadrant....Pages 245-249
Recent Star Formation in the Lupus Clouds as Seen by Herschel....Pages 251-254
Filaments and Pre-stellar Sources in the Orion A L 1641 Molecular Clouds....Pages 255-258
Properties of Interstellar Filaments as Derived from Herschel Observations....Pages 259-263
Preliminary Results of the Herschel Gould Belt Survey in the Orion B Complex....Pages 265-269
HOBYS Observations of Ridges and Filaments, and the Evolution of Massive Dense Cores....Pages 271-274
The Filamentary Structure of the Lupus 3 Molecular Cloud....Pages 275-279
Molecular Line Observations of Isolated Cores....Pages 281-282
Compact Molecular Outflow from a Protostar at the Earliest Evolutionary Phase....Pages 283-285
Magnetic Field Structure Around Class 0 Protostars NGC 1333 IRAS 4A1/4A2 on Scales of 50–3,000 AU....Pages 287-290
Mapping the Star Formation in Orion A/L1641....Pages 291-293
Can We Trust CO as a Probe of the Densities and Temperatures of Molecular Clouds?....Pages 295-297
Hunting Coreshine with (Warm) Spitzer: From Grain Growth to Planet Formation....Pages 299-300
The APEX-CHAMP + View of the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 Core....Pages 301-303
Spectral Characteristics of Young Stars Associated with the Sh2-296 Nebula....Pages 305-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Mapping the Present-Day Prestellar Core Mass Function into the Stellar IMF....Pages 309-315
Astrometric and Photometric Mass Functions in Open Clusters from UKIDSS GCS DR9....Pages 317-321
The Birth of an IMF....Pages 323-327
The Salpeter Slope of the IMF Explained....Pages 329-333
Recent Advances on IMF Research....Pages 335-340
Four-Parameter Fits to Core Mass Functions Using Stable Distributions Demonstrate Statistical Differences Between Star Forming Regions....Pages 341-344
A Stochastic Model of Accretion....Pages 345-349
The Low Mass End of the IMF Unveiled by the WIRCam/CFHT Survey of Nearby Young Clusters....Pages 351-353
Astrometric and Photometric Mass Functions of the Old Open Cluster Praesepe from the UKIDSS GCS....Pages 355-357
The Evolution of the Core Mass Function by Gas Accretion....Pages 359-360
The Clump Mass Function in the Carina Nebula....Pages 361-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Theories of the Massive Star Formation: A (Short) Review....Pages 365-372
Molecular Gas in the Inner 500 pc of the Milky Way: Violating Star Formation Relations and on the Verge of Forming Extreme Stellar Clusters....Pages 373-377
A Solution to the Radiation Pressure Problem in the Formation of Massive Stars....Pages 379-383
Star Formation Rates and Ridge Structures in High-Mass Star-Forming Regions....Pages 385-389
GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects and the Early Stages of Massive Star Formation....Pages 391-394
Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Massive Star Formation Using Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer....Pages 395-399
Age Spread in Galactic Star Forming Region W3 Main....Pages 401-405
The Impact of Outflows: From Low to High Mass Protostars....Pages 407-411
The Interplay Between Molecular and Ionised Gas Surrounding the Massive Embedded Star AFGL 4176....Pages 413-414
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Toward a Chemical Evolutionary Sequence in High-Mass Star Formation....Pages 415-416
An 80 pc Long Massive Molecular Filament in the Galactic Mid-Plane....Pages 417-418
Probing the Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation Through Observations of N 2 D + ....Pages 419-420
The Next Generation of High-Mass Stars and Clusters Traced by ATLASGAL....Pages 421-423
Deuteration in High-Mass Star Forming Regions....Pages 425-427
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Clustered Star Formation: A Review....Pages 431-436
A Galactic-Scale Origin for Stellar Clustering....Pages 437-441
Young Clusters in Nearby, Grand-Design Spirals....Pages 443-446
Hierarchically Clustered Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 447-451
MYStIX First Results: Spatial Structures of Massive Young Stellar Clusters....Pages 453-457
Dynamics and Multiplicity of Young Star Clusters: Getting the Most Out of Single Epoch Radial Velocity Data....Pages 459-463
The Dynamics of an Expanding OB Association....Pages 465-469
IRAS 20050+2720: Clustering of Low Mass Stars....Pages 471-472
Clusters Within Clusters: Star Formation in RCW 38....Pages 473-475
Stellar Clusters in the Inner Galaxy and Their Correlation with ATLASGAL....Pages 477-479
An HST Study of Star Formation in Star-Burst Clusters....Pages 481-483
MYStIX: Massive Young Stellar Cluster Study in Infrared and X-Rays....Pages 485-487
Conference Photographs....Pages 489-518
Back Matter....Pages 519-522