Jets from Young Stars II: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations

Description

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations organised by the Marie Curie Research Training Network JETSET: Jet Simulations, Experiments and Theory. After the opening two chapters on jet emission, readers can learn the fundamental background of modern high-spatial-resolution techniques, and how such methods have impacted on our understanding of young stars. The lectures provide hands-on insight into Observing from space, e.g. from HST and in the future JWST, and from the ground with adaptive optics,The use of interferometers at millimetre and infrared wavelengths,Spectro-astrometryImage analysis and spectral diagnostic techniquesHigh-Angular Resolution studies of the inner regions of circumstellar disks, which play a fundamental role in jet launching. The books' practical approach makes it an outstanding and extremely useful textbook for PhD students and young researchers in astronomy. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Stellar Jets: Clues to the Process of Star and Planet Formation....Pages 3-13 Measurement of Physical Conditions in Stellar Jets....Pages 15-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Basic Concepts and Parameters of Astronomical AO Systems....Pages 45-78 IR Spectroscopy of Jets: Diagnostics and HAR Observations....Pages 79-104 Observing YSO Jets with Adaptive Optics: Techniques and Main Results....Pages 105-121 Spectro-astrometry: The Method, its Limitations, and Applications....Pages 123-149 Observations of YSO Jets from Space: HST and Beyond....Pages 151-171 Observations and Models of X-ray Emission from Jets of Infant Stars....Pages 173-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Principles of Interferometry....Pages 193-218 (Sub)mm Interferometry Applications in Star Formation Research....Pages 219-239 Observing Young Stellar Objects with Very Large Telescope Interferometer....Pages 241-255 Presentation of AMBER/VLTI Data Reduction....Pages 257-272 High Angular Resolution Observations of Disks....Pages 273-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-291