Sternentstehung - Star Formation

Lecture in winter term 2024/2025, 2SWS

Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning & Caroline Gieser

Tuesdays 9:15, Start 15.10.2024, Philosophenweg 12, kleiner Hoersaal (kHS)

The lecture will be given in English.

Registration: To register for the lecture, please either directly via heiCO, or send an email directly to "beuther at mpia.de", or simply come to the first lecture on October 15, 2024.

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:

15.10  Introduction and overview                                (Beuther, pdf)
22.10  Physical processes I                                        (Beuther, pdf)
29.10   --
05.11  Physical processes II                                       (Beuther, pdf)
12.11  Molecular clouds as birth places of stars         (Beuther, pdf)
19.11  Molecular clouds (cont.), Jeans anlysis           (Henning, pdf)
26.11  Collapse models I                                            (Beuther)
03.12  Collapse models II                                           (Beuther)
10.12 Protostellar evolution & pre-main sequence     (Gieser)
17.12 Outflows/jets                                                     (Henning) 
07.01 Accretion disks  I                                              (Henning)
14.01 Accretion disks II                                              (Henning)    
21.01 High-mass star formation, clusters & IMF        (Gieser)
28.01 Extragalactic star formation                              (Henning)
04.02 Planetarium@HdA, outlook, questions             (Beuther, Gieser, Henning)
11.02 Examination week, no star formation lecture