List of Topics & Papers to (Potentially) be Discussed in the

Spring 2002 Yale Seminar on Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium

 

Topic

(initials=faculty introducer)

Paper(s)

Discussion Leader/Date

Star-counting: Early and Modern Applications (AG)

Alves, J., Lada, C.J. and Lada, E.A. 2001, Internal structure of a cold dark molecular cloud inferred from the extinction of background starlight, Nature, 409, 159.

Alyssa Goodman

1/15/02

Molecular-Line Spectroscopy: Mapping Molecular Clouds (AG)

Lada, E.A., Bally, J. and Stark, A.A. 1991, An Unbiased Survey for Dense Cores in the Lynds 1630 Molecular Cloud, ApJ, 368, 432. (READ)

Lada, E.A. 1992, Global Star Formation in the L1630 Molecular Cloud, ApJ, 393, L25. (SCAN)

Brooke Simmons

1/22/02

Turbulence and "Larson's Laws" (RL)

Larson, R.B. 1981, Turbulence and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds, MNRAS, 194, 809. (READ)

Goodman, A.A., Barranco, J.A., Wilner, D.J. and Heyer, M.H. 1998, Coherent Dense Cores. II. The Transition to Coherence, ApJ, 504, 223. (SCAN)

Ryan Quadri

1/29/02

Outflows & Jets: Origin, Influence and Proper Motion (AG)

Snell, R.L., Loren, R.B. and Plambeck, R.L. 1980, Observations of CO in L1551:  Evidence for Stellar Wind Driven Shocks, ApJ, 239, L17. (READ)

Bally, J., Reipurth, B., Lada, C.J. and Billawala, Y. 1999, Multiple CO Outflows in Circinus: The Churning of a Molecular Cloud, AJ, 117, 410. (SCAN)

Hugh Crowl

2/12/02

Numerical Simulations of Molecular Clouds (AG/RL)

Vazquez-Semadeni, E., Ostriker, E.C., Passot, T., Gammie, C.F. and Stone, J.M. 2000, Compressible MHD Turbulence: Implications for Molecular Cloud and Star Formation, Protostars and Planets IV, 3. (Available in hardcopy through Richard Larson, Alyssa Goodman or library; or electronically here.)

Dipankar Maitra

2/19/02

Interferometry and Disks (AG)

Wilner, D.J., Ho, P.T.P. and Rodriguez, L.F. 1996, Subarcsecond VLA Observations of HL Tauri: Imaging the Circumstellar Disk, ApJ, 470, L117.

Alyssa Goodman

2/26/02

The Origins of Binarity & Multiplicity (RL)

 Looney, L.W., Mundy, L.G. and Welch, W.J. 2000, Unveiling the Circumstellar Envelope and Disk: A Subarcsecond Survey of Circumstellar Structures, ApJ, 529, 477.

Note: AG away at MIT this day.

Jeffrey Van Duyne

3/5/02

The Initial Mass Function of Star-Forming Gas, and of Stars (RL)

 Larson, R. L. 1999, The Stellar Initial Mass Function, in "Star Formation 1999," T. Nakamoto. ed, p. 336 .

Richard Larson and Ezequiel Treister

3/26/02

Grain growth in Star-Forming Regions (AG)

Hogerheijde, M.R. and Sandell, G. 2000, Testing Envelope Models of Young Stellar Objects with Submillimeter Continuum and Molecular-Line Observations, ApJ, 534, 880.

Alyssa Goodman

4/2/02

The Influence of Interstellar Dust on Extragalactic Observations (AG)

Aguirre, A. 1999, Intergalactic Dust and Observations of Type IA Supernovae, ApJ, 525, 583.

Volunteer!!

4/9/02

The Search for Extrasolar Planets (AG)

Butler, R. P., Marcy, G. W., Fischer, D. A., Vogt, S. S., C.G.Tinney, Jones,H.R.A., Penny,A.J., Apps, K., 2000, Statistical Properties of Extrasolar Planets, in "Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observations, Formation and Evolution", in ASP Conference Series Vol. nnn, 2001, ed. A.Penny, P.Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange, and S. Russell .

and

Surf: http://exoplanets.org/

Bing Zhao

4/16/02

Properties of the Intergalactic Medium (RL)

 

Richard Larson

4/23/02

Star Formation in the Early Universe (RL)

 

Andres Escala

4/23/02