Massive star formation
Subtitle: observations confront theory : proceedings of a conference held at the Heidelberg Convention Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 10-14 September 2007
By: edited by Henrik Beuther, Hendrik Linz, and Thomas Henning
Contributors: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Series: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series -- v. 387; Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series -- v. 387.
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781583816424
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Stars; Congresses; Formation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and author index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: The Initial Conditions for Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Initial Conditions for Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Flow-Driven Formation of Massive Cores: Rapid & Efficient? -- ; title: Massive Infrared-Quiet Dense Cores: Unveiling the Initial Conditions of High-Mass Star Formation -- ; title: Searching for Massive Pre-Stellar Cores through Observations of N2H[superscript +] and N[subscript 2]D[superscript +] -- ; title: Cold Supersonic Turbulence in Massive Cores -- ; title: Infrared Dark Clouds -- ; title: From Stellar Protoclustors to Infrared Dark Clouds -- ; title: Determining the Relative Evolutionary Stages of Very Young Massive Star Formation Regions --  -- Pt. 2.; title: Observational Constraints and Feedback Processes -- ; title: Infall and the Formation of a Massive Star -- ; title: An Infrared View of (Candidate Accretion) Disks around Massive Young Stars -- ; title: Angular Momentum and the Formation of Massive Stars -- ; title: Binaries in Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Recent Astrochemical Results on Star-Forming Regions -- ; title: Southern Surveys of Hot Cores -- ; title: Maser Polarization and Magnetic Fields during Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Periodic Variations in Class II Methanol Masers -- ; title: Dissecting Massive YSOs with Mid-Infrared Interferometry -- ; title: The Innermost Circumstellar Environment of Massive Young Stellar Objects Revealed by Infrared Interferometry -- ; title: Feedback Processes: A Theoretical Perspective -- ; title: Outflows from Massive Stars -- ; title: Outflow and Accretion in Massive Star-Forming Regions -- ; title: Dynamic Evidence of Triggered Star Formation --  -- Pt. 3.; title: Theoretical Concepts -- ; title: Theoretical Developments in Understanding Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Collapse, Fragmentation, and Accretion in Massive Cores -- ; title: The Conditions for Competitive Accretion -- ; title: Filaments, Collapse and Outflows in Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Ionized Accretion Flows in Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Hypercompact HII Regions -- ; title: Massive Star-Forming Regions: Turbulent Support or Global Collapse? -- ; title: Stellar Collisions in Young Clusters: Formation of (Very) Massive Stars? -- ; title: Evolution of Massive Protostars with High Accretion Rates -- ; title: Embedded, Accreting Disks in Massive Star Formation -- ; title: Evidence for Disks around Young Massive Stars from 3D Radiative Transfer Image Modeling -- ; title: SPH Simulations of Clustered Star Formation with Dust and Gas Energetics -- ; title: Primordial Mass Segregation in Starburst Stellar Clusters -- ; title: SED Modeling of Young Massive Stars -- ; title: Models for Dust and Molecular Emission of High-Mass Protostars -- ; title: The Future of Theory and Simulati.on in High-Mass Star Formation --  -- Pt. 4.; title: Clustered Star Formation and Massive Star Formation Throughout the Galaxy -- ; title: Spitzer-IRAC GLIMPSE of High-Mass Protostellar Objects -- ; title: Probing the Early Evolution of Young High-Mass Stars -- ; title: Massive Star Formation triggered by Galactic HII Regions -- ; title: Turmoil in Orion: The Nearest Massive Protostar -- ; title: X-Ray Properties of Very Young Massive Stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster -- ; title: Massive Star Formation Near Sgr A* and Bimodal Star Formation in the Nuclear Disk -- ; title: The Starburst Cluster Westerlund 1 and its Galactic Siblings - Observation Confronts Theory -- ; title: The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy: Something Old, Something New -- ; title: The RMS Survey: A Galaxy-wide Sample of Massive Young Stellar Objects -- ; title: The CORNISH Survey of the Galactic Plane --  -- Pt. 5.; title: Extragalactic Star Formation -- ; title: The Properties of Dense Molecular Gas in the Milky Way and Galaxies -- ; title: Star Formation in The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey -- ; title: Were All Massive Stars Born in OB Associations and Clusters? --  -- Pt. 6.; title: Panel Discussions, Poster-Award Talks, and Summary -- ; title: Panel Discussion I: What is a Massive Protostar? Theoretical Definitions, Observational Criteria, and Evolutionary Sequence -- ; title: Summary of Panel Discussion II: Theoretical Models and Observational Constraints in High-Mass Star Formation -- ; title: VLTI/MIDI Observations of the Massive Protostellar Candidate NGC 3603 IRS9A -- ; title: Suzaku X-ray Spectroscopy of a Peculiar Hot Star Near the Galactic Center --  -- Pt. 7.; title: List of Posters.