Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life (IAU S345)

IAU S345 covers the processes involved in the formation of the Sun and leading to habitable Earth-like planets.

Bruce G. Elmegreen (Edited by), L. Viktor Tóth (Edited by), Manuel Güdel (Edited by)

9781108471602, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 March 2020

418 pages
25.4 x 17.9 x 2 cm, 0.84 kg

This comprehensive collection of reviews and research reports covers the processes involved in the formation of the Sun and Earth-like planets. Specific topics range from star formation to protoplanetary disks, planet formation, and the basics of life. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the complex chain of events leading to habitable planets and life, covering research from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry, planetary sciences, chemistry, and biology, through theory, observations, and experiments. These observations reveal the chemistry and dust content of young disks, the location of water that is essential to life, and some of the dynamical processes that affect the growth of forming planets. IAU Symposium 345 reviews some of the most modern concepts in star and planet formation and is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers who will someday answer humanity's biggest question: what is our origin?

Preface
Editors
Acknowledgements
Participants
1. Cosmic pathways to life: from interstellar molecules to the first traces of life Manuel Güdel, Bruce G. Elmegreen and L. Viktor Toth
2. Star formation in the solar neighbourhood Mika Juvela
3. The role of automated methods for filament finding in understanding the complex relationship between filaments, magnetic fields and star formation Maria R. Cunningham, Claire-Elise Green, Paul A. Jones, Giles Novak and Laura Fissel
4. 3D shape of Orion A with Gaia DR2 Josefa E. Grosschedl, João Alves, Stefan Meingast and Birgit Hasenberger
5. The dense galactic environments of the Milky Way Quang Nguyen-Luong, Neal Evans, Kee-Tae Kim, Hyunwoo Kang and DEGAMA survey
6. Kinematics of OB-associations in the 3-kpc solar neighbourhood Anna M. Melnik, Andrei K. Dambis, Elena V. Glushkova and Pertti Rautiainen
7. Star formation in cloud cores C. Federrath
8. ALMA observations of the Orion Integral Filament Alvaro Hacar, Mario Tafalla, Jan Forbrich and Josefa Grossschedl
9. Constraints from zoom-in simulations on the protostellar accretion process Michael Kuffmeier
10. The implications of clustered star formation for (proto)planetary systems and habitability J. M. Diederik Kruijssen and Steven N. Longmore
11. MASSES: an SMA large project surveying protostars to reveal how stars gain their mass Ian W. Stephens, Michael M. Dunham, Philip C. Myers, Riwaj Pokhrel, Tyler L. Bourke and the MASSES team
12. The birth environment of the solar system constrained by the relative abundances of the solar radionuclides Edward D. Young
13. Triggered star formation inside the shell of a Wolf–Rayet bubble as the origin of the Solar System Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Nicolas Dauphas, Bradley Meyer, Peter Boyajian and Michael Bojazi
14. Short-lived radioisotopes in meteorites from Galactic-scale correlated star formation Yusuke Fujimoto, Mark R. Krumholz and Shogo Tachibana
15. Episodic accretion in focus: revealing the environment of FU Orionis-type stars O. Fehér, Á. Kóspál, P. Ábrahám, M. R. Hogerheijde, Ch. Brinch and D. Semenov
16. Characterizing the youngest protostellar disks with the IRAM-PdBI and ALMA interferometers Anaëlle Maury
17. Formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks: observations and modeling of jets, disks, and disk substructures Laura M. Pérez
18. Towards realistic understandings of gas dynamics in protoplanetary disks Xue-Ning Bai
19. Resolving star and planet formation with ALMA Per Bjerkeli, Daniel Harsono, Matthijs H. D. van der Wiel, Jon P. Ramsey, Lars E. Kristensen and Jes K. Jorgensen
20. Unified picture of chemical differentiation in disk-forming regions of low-mass protostellar sources Yoko Oya
21. The physical and chemical properties of planet forming disks Inga Kamp
22. 3D radiation MHD simulations of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks Mario Flock
23. A mid-infrared interferometric survey of the planet-forming region around young Sun-like stars József Varga, P. Ábrahám, Lei Chen, Thorsten Ratzka, K. É. Gabányi and Á. Kóspál
24. The ALMA-PILS survey Jes K. Jorgensen and the PILS team
25. The first 200 kyr of the Solar System Francesco C. Pignatale, Sébastien Charnoz, Marc Chaussidon and Emmanuel Jacquet
26. Formation of terrestrial planets Eiichiro Kokubo
27. Formation of the Earth-Moon system Sergei I. Ipatov
28. Transitional disk archeology from exoplanet population synthesis Germán Chaparro Molano, Frank Bautista and Yamila Miguel
29. Early planetary atmospheres and surfaces Doris Breuer
30. Water inventory from beyond the Jupiter's orbit to the terrestrial planets and the Moon Mikhail Ya. Marov and Sergei I. Ipatov
31. Neutral atmospheric escape in the Solar and extrasolar planetary systems Dmitry V. Bisikalo and Valery I. Shematovich
32. Modelling the atmosphere of potential habitable planets Nicolas Iro
33. The biological impact of su

Subject Areas: Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS], Astronomy, space & time [PG]