Star-Disk Interaction in Young Stars (IAU S243)

Reviews latest star-disk interaction region in young stars for graduate students and researchers.

Jerome Bouvier (Edited by), Immo Appenzeller (Edited by)

9780521874656, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 January 2008

390 pages, 231 b/w illus. 6 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.918 kg

'All in all this was a pretty good collection of papers discussing our current understanding of star-disc interactions …' The Observatory: A Review of Astronomy

Stars form surrounded by a circumstellar disk which is thought to be the cradle of planets. IAU Symposium 243 highlights the latest developments in understanding the structure and evolution of the star-disk interaction region in young stars, a critical component of our knowledge of star and planetary system formation processes. Discussions review the physical processes thought to be at work at the star-disk interface, confront the predictions of the latest numerical and analytical magnetohydrodynamic models of star-disk-jet systems with observations, and explore the consequences of these processes for stellar angular momentum evolution and inner disk structure. The most recent observational results, computer simulations and theoretical developments in this active field of research are included to provide a unique vision into this central aspect of the star and planet formation problem.

Preface
Part I. Setting the stage
Part 2. Magnetic fields
Part 3. Magnetospheric accretion and inner disk truncation
Part 4. Magnetospheric ejection
Part 5. Star-disk magnetospheric coupling
Part 6. Companions, planets and effects of stellar mass
Part 7. Conclusion
Author index
subject index
Object Index.

Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB]