Star Formation and Techniques in Infrared and mm-Wave Astronomy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994 Lectures Held at the Predoctoral Astrophysics School V Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Berlin, Germany, 21 September - 2 October 1992 Lecture Notes in Physics Series, Vol. 431

The rapid growth in our understanding of how stars form owes a lot to recent developments in techniques for carrying out infrared and millimeter-wave astronomy. Thus Star Formationand Techniques in mm-Wave Astronomy were natural joint themes for the Fifth EADN Predoctoral Astrophysics School held at the Technische Universität Berlin. The lecture courses by six world-class experts are aimed at postgraduate students and scientists with a non-specialist interest in the field. Topics include molecular clouds, T Tauri stars, OB stars, observation methods in infrared and mm astronomy, as well as high resolution techniques.

Molecular clouds and star formation.- An introduction to T Tauri stars.- Massive stars and their interactions with their environment.- Observing far-infrared and submillimeter continuum emission.- Near infrared techniques for studies of star formation.- High spatial resolution infrared observations — Principles, methods, results.- ROSAT survey sources in star formation regions.- Stellar jets with time-dependent direction of ejection.- The structure and evolution of OB associations.- ROSAT X-ray Study of the Chamaeleon I dark cloud: The stellar population.- Comparison of molecular line data with IRAS and HI data in high latitude clouds.- Photometric study of rotation in low-mass PMS stars.- Einstein observations of T Tauri stars in Taurus-Auriga: Properties of X-Ray emission and relationships with pre-mainsequence activity.- A study on the kinematics of the HII regions of NGC 4449.- Star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies.- Centimeter continuum emission from IRAS 16293-2422.- N(CO)/N(H2)-ratio in the local interstellar medium.- Study of the physical and chemical conditions towards the W3 region.- Spatial and kinematic properties of winds from T-Tauri-Stars.- CO deficiency in galaxies of the Fornax cluster?.- Properties and distribution of gas and dust in the thumbprint nebula.- A Disk around the young stellar object Z Canis Majoris?.- A CS (J=1 ? 0) study of regions previously mapped in ammonia.- Interacting H2O masers in star-forming regions.- Surface adjustment of the KOSMA 3m telescope using phase retrieval “holography”.- Ammonia observations of dense cores in molecular clouds.- Tidally-induced warps in T Tauri disks: First-Order Perturbation theory.- Near infrared images of galactic water masers.- Multiwavelength study of star formation related objects.