Star formation and exoplanets

• Notes on star formation (PDF)

Some of the material in the notes can be found at:

• Mark Wyatt of Cambridge has written some very nice lecture notes on disks (PDF)
• An excerpt by Calvet and D'Alessio on protoplanetary disks can be found on mycourses. You can find it in the book "Physical processes in interstellar disks" edited by Paolo Garcia.
• Milky Way in Molecular Clouds: A New Complete CO Survey
• Planck Mission's US Data Center
• Review article "Star formation in molecular clouds - Observation and theory" by Shu, Adams and Lizano (1987)
• The Evolution of Protostars: Insights from Ten Years of Infrared Surveys with Spitzer and Herschel by Duhman et al. (2014)
• Structure of the Solar Nebula, Growth and Decay of of Magnetic Fields and Effects of Magnetic and Turbulent Viscosities on the Nebula by Hayashi, Suppl. of Progress in Theoretical Physics, 70 (1981)

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