Jets from Young Stars Models and Constraints /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ferreira, Jonathan (Editor), Dougados, Catherine (Editor), Whelan, Emma (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 723
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Space sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the First JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Models and Constraints, held by the Marie Curie Research and Training Network on JET Simulations, Experiments and Theory. At this school the lecturers gave an introduction to observational properties a...

Table of Contents:

• Observational Constraints
• The First Three Million Years
• Jets from Young Stars: The Need for MHD Collimation and Acceleration Processes
• Star-disk Interaction in Classical T Tauri Stars
• Magneto-Hydrodynamic Models
• to Magneto-Hydrodynamics
• Theory and Models of Standard Accretion Disks
• Theory of MHD Jets and Outflows
• Transit Flows and Jet Asymptotics
• MHD Disc Winds
• Stellar Wind Models.