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Accretion processes in star formation /

A complete account of the underlying physical processes of accretion for graduate students and researchers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartmann, Lee, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Cambridge astrophysics series ; 47.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Overview; 2 Beginnings: molecular clouds; 3 Initial conditions for protostellar collapse; 4 Protostellar cloud collapse; 5 Protostellar collapse: observations vs. theory; 6 Binaries, clusters, and the IMF; 7 Disk accretion; 8 The disks of pre-main-sequence stars; 9 The FU Orionis objects; 10 Disk winds, jets, and magnetospheric accretion; 11 Disk accretion and early stellar evolution; 12 Disk evolution and planet formation
  • Appendix 1 Basic hydrodynamic and MHD equationsAppendix 2 Jeans masses and fragmentation; Appendix 3 Basic radiative transfer; List of symbols; Bibliography; Index