The study of star formation with IRAS
- Creators
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Beichman, Charles A.
- Other:
- Lawrence, Andrew
Abstract
A brief review is made of how IRAS has advanced our understanding of star formation. The IRAS survey has revealed the presence of embedded infrared sources within small, dense cores of molecular gas. Some of these objects may be protostars of roughly solar mass deriving a substantial fraction of their energy from infalling material. Circumstellar disks appear to surround many young stars, both in the embedded phase and, later, as T Tauri stars. IRAS also cataloged regions of high mass star formation across the galaxy. These data may lead to an understanding of what triggers the formation of such stars. Finally, while high mass star formation obviously contributes strongly to the infrared emission from galaxies, observations within the Galaxy show that a substantial fraction of infrared emission comes from dust heated by the ambient radiation field and not directly by young stars.
Additional Information
© Springer-Verlag 1988. Part of this work was funded by the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of NASA's Extended Mission program. JPL is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I would like to thank M. Rowan-Robinson and the scientific organizing committee for providing travel support.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 105685
- DOI
- 10.1007/bfb0118802
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20200930-113055405
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- Created
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2020-09-30Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
- Series Name
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 297