Sternentstehung - Star
Formation
Covid-19: Due to the pandemic situation, we
just received the news that the month of November will be
online-only teaching. The corresponding zoom connection for this star
formation lecture is:
Meeting ID: 517-538-4272
Code:
374880
Link: https://zoom.us/j/5175384272?pwd=RHVQckpRNjJ6T0JJd0M5SC9jSDRJQT09
(We hope that December will allow for a hybrid mode with in-person and
online-teaching
simultaneously. But this will be decided at a later point. We will keep
you posted.)
Lecture in winter term 2020/2021, 2SWS
Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning & Suemeyye Suri
Tuesdays 9:15, Start
3.11.2020, Philosophenweg 12, grosser
Hoersaal (gHS)
The lecture will be given in English.
Registration: To
register for the lecture, please either visit register
or send an email directly to "beuther at mpia.de".
Required credit points can be obtained at the end of the term via oral
examinations.
Literature: Steven Stahler & Francesco Palla: The Formation of
Stars, Wiley-VCH 2004
Tentative Schedule:
03.11 Introduction and overview
(Beuther)
10.11 Physical processes I
(Beuther)
17.11 Physical processes II
(Beuther)
24.11
Molecular clouds as birth places of stars
(Suri)
01.12 Molecular clouds (cont.), Jeans anlysis
(Suri)
08.12 Collapse models I
(Henning)
15.12 Collapse
models
II
(Henning)
12.01 Protostellar evolution
(Beuther)
19.01 Pre-main sequence ev. and outflows/jets
(Beuther)
26.01
Accretion disks I
(Henning)
02.02 Accretion
disks II
(Henning)
09.02 High-mass star formation, clusters & IMF
(Suri)
16.02 Extragalactic star formation
(Henning)
23.02 Examination week,
no star formation lecture