Notes on Star Formation

Understand

This book provides an introduction to the field of star formation at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced undergraduates in astronomy or physics.

• The structure of the book is as follows.
• The first two chapters begin with a discussion of observational techniques, and the basic phenomenology they reveal.
• The goal is to familiarize students with the basic techniques that will be used throughout, and to provide a common vocabulary for the rest of the book.