The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 24–27 April 2001

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
As Eyes See Young Stars Assemble: Star and Planet Formation in the VLT Era....Pages 1-18
Mapping the Interstellar Dust with Near-Infrared Observations: An Optimized Multi-Band Technique....Pages 19-26
Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores....Pages 27-34
Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View....Pages 35-43
The Physical Structure of a Prestellar Core in IC 5146....Pages 44-50
From Infall to Rotation Around Young Stellar Objects....Pages 51-58
Mass Spectra from Turbulent Fragmentation....Pages 59-66
From Molecular Clouds to Planets: Prospects for ALMA....Pages 67-76
Continuum Polarization as a Tool: A Perspective for VLT and ALMA....Pages 77-84
The Mineralogy and Magnetism of Star and Planet Formation as Revealed by Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry....Pages 85-90
From the Sun to Jupiter: Evolution of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs down to Planetary Masses....Pages 91-99
Core Collapse and the Formation of Binaries....Pages 100-104
The Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Binary Systems: How Will VLT(I) Help?....Pages 105-113
The Formation of Brown Dwarfs....Pages 114-119
Disk Orientations in PMS Binary Systems Determined Through Polarimetric Imaging with UT1/FORS....Pages 120-126
Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs in Cha I....Pages 127-132
Imaging with the VLT....Pages 133-137
The Formation of a Cluster of Stars and Brown Dwarfs in a Turbulent Molecular Cloud....Pages 138-145
Submm and MIR Imaging of Protostellar Clusters....Pages 146-152
Infrared Imaging of Embedded Clusters: Constraints for Star and Planet Formation....Pages 153-170
Modes of Star Formation and Constraints on the Birth Aggregate of our Solar System....Pages 171-177
The VLT and the Powers of 10: Young Clusters Home and Away....Pages 178-185
NIR Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of L-Dwarfs: An Efficient Classification Scheme for Faint Dwarfs....Pages 186-192
VLT/FORS Spectroscopy in σ Orionis: Isolated Planetary Mass Candidate Members....Pages 193-200
Infrared Spectroscopy of Sub-Stellar Objects in Orion....Pages 201-208
Young Stars in ρ Ophiuchi: Toward the Completeness down to Substellar Masses....Pages 209-216
Variability and Rotation in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs....Pages 217-224
Infrared Observation of Hot Cores....Pages 225-230
An Overview of Induced Star Formation Near the Surfaces of Molecular Clouds....Pages 231-237
Ices in Star-Forming Regions: First Results from VLT-ISAAC....Pages 238-245
The Spectacular BHR 71 Outflow....Pages 246-252
High Angular Resolution Analyses of Herbig-Haro Jets....Pages 253-258
Structure of Magnetocentrifugal Disk-Winds: From the Launching Surface to Large Distances....Pages 259-264
Into the Twilight Zone: Reaching the Jet Engine with AMBER/VLTI....Pages 265-272
T Tauri Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Combined HST and VLT Effort....Pages 273-280
High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy of Protostars with Large Telescopes....Pages 281-288
VLT/ISAAC Spectroscopy of Young Massive Stars Embedded in Ultra-Compact H II Regions....Pages 289-296
NGC 3603 IRS 9: The Revealment of a Cluster of Protostars and the Potential of Mid-IR Imaging with VLT + VISIR....Pages 297-302
Sub-Arcsecond Millimeter Imaging of Disks and Envelopes: Probing the Density Structure....Pages 303-308
VLA Studies of Disks Around T Tauri Stars....Pages 309-316
A Close View on the Protoplanetary Disk in the Bok Globule CB 26....Pages 317-324
Detecting Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks with MIDI at the VLTI....Pages 325-330
The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: Lessons from the VLT and ISO....Pages 331-336
The Destruction of Circumstellar Discs....Pages 337-344
VISIR and the Formation of Stars and Planets....Pages 345-350
Mid Infrared Variability of Herbig Ae/Be Stars....Pages 351-356
Prospects for Star Formation Studies with Mid-Infrared Instruments on Large Telescopes....Pages 357-364
Adaptive Optics Search for Faint Companions Around Young Nearby Stars....Pages 365-370
Extra-Solar Planetary Systems in the VLT Era....Pages 371-380
Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Substellar Companions Next to Young Nearby Stars in TWA....Pages 381-388
VLT Observations of the Young Stellar Object TMR-1....Pages 389-397
Searching for Planets in Stellar Clusters: Preliminary Results from the Hyades....Pages 398-404
The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk....Pages 405-414
The VLTI and Its Instrumentation....Pages 415-421
Observing Young Stellar Objects with the VLT Interferometer....Pages 422-428
Preparing for the VLTI: A Search for Pre-Main Sequence Spectroscopic Binaries....Pages 429-436
From Protoplanetary to Debris Disks....Pages 437-444
Turbulent Radial Mixing in the Solar Nebula as the Source of Crystalline Silicates in Comets....Pages 445-451
X-Rays from Star-Forming Regions in the VLT Era....Pages 452-460
The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: SIRTF Legacy Science in the VLT Era....Pages 461-470
The Herschel Space Observatory and the Earliest Stages of Star Formation....Pages 471-480
A Look Forward to Star and Planet Formation with the NGST....Pages 481-490
Origin of Stars and Planets: The View from 2021....Pages 491-511
Back Matter....Pages 513-515