Star Formation and Protostellar Disk Dynamics

by Sarah Maddison

 

1/6/2000

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Table of Contents

Star Formation and Protostellar Disk Dynamics

Where Do Stars Form?

How Do Stars Form?

Cloud Collapse

Stellar Nurseries

Stellar Cocoons

Proplyds

Solar Systems in the Making

Protostellar Disks

Disk Dynamics

Massive Protostellar Disks

Massive Disk Simulation: M(disk) = 0.5 M(star)

Massive Disk Simulation: M(disk) = 1.0 M(star)

Protoplanetary Disks

PP Disks - mass accretion 

PP Disks - migration

PP Disks - extrasolar planets

Circumbinary Disks

CB Disk simulation: gap clearing

CB Disk simulation: further evolution

GG Tau - a CB Disk

GG Tau - IR images

Conclusions

 Author: Sarah Maddison 

Email: smaddison@swin.edu.au

Home Page: http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/maddison/

Last Updated: 14 June 2000

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