Cambridge University Press, 2009, Pages: 332
Recent discoveries of planets around other stars and protoplanetary disks around young stars have led to a new understanding of how stars and planets form. This book provides a thorough, up-to-date, and concise overview of the physical processes involved in the formation of stars and the disks around them which ultimately form planets.Throughout the book, state-of-the-art theoretical models are integrated with recent observations, and important problems which remain to be solved are highlighted.This book provides the first comprehensive account of the physics behind star and protoplanetary disk formation.
Recent discoveries of planets around other stars and protoplanetary disks around young stars have led to a new understanding of how stars and planets form. This book provides a thorough, up-to-date, and concise overview of the physical processes involved in the formation of stars and the disks around them which ultimately form planets.Throughout the book, state-of-the-art theoretical models are integrated with recent observations, and important problems which remain to be solved are highlighted.This book provides the first comprehensive account of the physics behind star and protoplanetary disk formation.