Sternentstehung - Star Formation

Lecture in winter term 2022/2023, 2SWS

Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning & Jonathan Henshaw

Tuesdays 9:15, Start 18.10.2022, Philosophenweg 12, kleiner Hoersaal (kHS)

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:

18.10  Introduction and overview                                (Beuther)
25.10  Physical processes I                                        (Beuther)
08.11  Physical processes II                                       (Beuther)
15.11  Molecular clouds as birth places of stars         (Henshaw)
22.11  Molecular clouds (cont.), Jeans anlysis           (Henshaw)
29.11  Collapse models I                                            (Beuther)
06.12  Collapse models II                                           (Henning)
13.12 Protostellar evolution & pre-main sequence     (Beuther)
20.12 Outflows/jets                                                     (Beuther) 
10.01 Accretion disks  I                                              (Henning)
17.01 Accretion disks II                                              (Henning)    
24.01 High-mass star formation, clusters & IMF        (Henshaw)
31.01 Extragalactic star formation                              (Henning)
07.02 Planetarium@HdA, outlook, questions
14.02 Examination week, no star formation lecture