Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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 equations
- Appendix 2 Jeans masses and fragmentation
- Appendix 3 Basic radiative transfer
- List of symbols
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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 equations
- Appendix 2 Jeans masses and fragmentation
- Appendix 3 Basic radiative transfer
- List of symbols
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Accretion Processes in Star Formation , pp. 328 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008