Contents
Collaborating Authors
Preface
Part I - Clouds
The Collapse of Clouds and the Formation and Evolution of Stars and Disks / F. Shu, J. Najita, D. Galli, E. Ostriker and S. Lizano
Nucleosynthesis and Star Formation / A. G. W. Cameron
Classical Novae: Contributions to the Interstellar Medium / R. D. Gehrz, J. W. Truran and R. E. Williams
Formation of Interstellar Clouds and Structure / B. G. Elmegreen
Giant Molecular Clouds / L. Blitz
The Chemical Evolution of Protostellar and Protoplanetary Matter / E. F. van Dishoeck, G. A. Blake, B. T. Draine and J. I. Lunine
Part II - Star Formation
Environments of Star Formation: Relationship Between Molecular Clouds, Dense Cores and Young Stars / E. A. Lada, K. M. Strom and P. C. Myers
Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions: Obervations / C. Heiles, A. A. Goodman, C. F. McKee and E. G. Zweibel
Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions: Theory / C. F. McKee, E. G. Zweibel, A. A. Goodman and C. Heiles
Stellar Multiple Systems: Constraints on the Mechanism of Origin / P. Bodenheimer, T. Ruzmaikina and R. D. Mathieu
Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution and the Birth Population / S. W. Stahler and F. M. Walter
The Initial Stellar Population / H. Zinnecker, M. J. McCaughrean and B. A. Wilking
Young Stars: Episodic Phenomena, Activity and Variability / L. Hartmann, S. Kenyon and P. Hartigan
Part III - Disks and Outflows
The Occurrence and Properties of Disks around Young Stars / S. V. W. Beckwith and A. I. Sargent
T Tauri Stars and their Accretion Disks / G. Basri and C. Bertout
Energetic Mass Outflows from Young Stars / S. Edwards, T. Ray and R. Mundt
Molecular Outflows / Y. Fukui, T. Iwata, A. Mizuno, J. Bally and A. P. Lane
Origin of Outflows and Winds / A. Konigl and S. P. Ruden
Magnetic Fields, Activity and Circumstellar Material around Young Stellar Objects / T. Montmerle, E. D. Feigelson, J. Bouvier and P. Andre
Part IV - Disk Processes and Planetary Matter
Transport Processes and the Evolution of Disks / F. C. Adams and D. N. C. Lin
On the Tidal Interaction between Protostellar Disks and Companions / D. N. C. Lin and J. C. B. Papaloizou
Evolutionary Time Scales for Circumstellar Disks Associated with Intermediate-and Solar-Type Stars / S. E. Strom, S. Edwards and M. F. Skrutskie
Extinct Radionuclides and Evolutionary Time Scales / T. D. Swindle
Physical and Isotopic Properties of Surviving Interstellar Carbon Phases / U. Ott
Energetic Particle Environment in the Early Solar System: Extremely Long Pre-Compaction Meteoritic Ages or an Enhanced Early Particle Flux / D. S. Woolum and C. Hohenberg
Formation of the Protosolar Nebula / W. M. Tscharnuter and A. P. Boss
Physical Processes and Conditions Associated with the Formation of Protoplanetary Disks / G. Morfill, H. Spruit and E. H. Levy
Meteoritic Constraints on Conditions in the Solar Nebula / H. Palme and W. V. Boynton
Chemistry and Evolution of Gaseous Circumstellar Disks / R. G. Prinn
Part V - Planetesimals and Planets
Formation of Planetesimals in the Solar Nebula / S. J. Weidenschiling and J. N. Cuzzi
Growth of Planets from Planetesimals / J. J. Lissauer and G. R. Stewart
Planetary Accretion in the Solar Gravitational Field / K. Ohtsuki, S. Ida, Y. Nakagawa and K. Nakazawa
Gaseous Accretion and the Formation of Giant Planets / M. Podolak, W. B. Hubbard and J. B. Pollack
Origins of Outer-Planet Satellites / J. I. Lunine and W. C. Tittemore
Comets and the Origin of the Solar System: Reading the Rosetta Stone / M. J. Mumma, P. R. Weissman and S. A. Stern
Main-Sequence Stars with Circumstellar Solid Material: The Vega Phenomenon / D. E. Backman and F. Paresce
Planetary Noble Gases / K. Zahnle
Impacts and the Early Environment and Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets / H. J. Melosh, A. M. Vickery and W. B. Tonks
The Long-Term Dynamical Evolution and Stability of the Solar System / M. J. Duncan and T. Quinn
Color Section
Glossary
Bibliography / M. Guerrieri
Acknowledgments
Index