Physical processes in circumstellar disks around young stars

Physical processes in circumstellar disks around young stars / edited by Paulo J.V. Garcia.

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar imaging technology enabled us to see nascent sta...

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Other Authors: Garcia, Paulo J. V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Disks (Astrophysics)
Stars > Formation.
Science.
Astronomy.
sciences (philosophy)
astronomy.
science (modern discipline)
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Astronomy
Science
Stars > Formation
Stjärnor.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars / Paulo J.V. Garcia, Antonella Natta, and Malcolm Walmsley
  • 2. Protoplanetary Disk Structure and Evolution / Nuria Calvet and Paolo D'Alessio
  • 3. The Chemical Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks / Edwin A. Bergin
  • 4. Dust Processing and Mineralogy in Protoplanetary Accretion Disks / Thomas Henning and Gwendolyn Meeus
  • 5. Disk Hydrodynamics / Richard H. Durisen
  • 6. Magnetohydrodynamics of Protostellar Disks / Steven A. Balbus
  • 7. The Effects of Large-Scale Magnetic Fields on Disk Formation and Evolution / Arieh Königl and Raquel Salmeron
  • 8. The Dispersal of Disks around Young Stars / Cathie Clarke.

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