Instructor: Dr. Patrick Hartigan, Hermann Brown Rm. 352 , Phone: X2245

Texts: Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics
          Protostars and Planets IV
          Protostars and Planets V
          You should have a copy of the PP-IV book.

Grading: Based on class presentations and participation

This is a course that will discuss the major areas of active research within the field of star formation and solar system origins. Every six years the international community holds a "Protostars and Planets" meeting. The latest, PP-V (the fifth), was just held in Hawaii last October. Each group presenting an invited talk also writes a detailed review of about 20 pages on the subfield, so the PP books are a great resource for everyone in the area.

For ASTR 555, students will choose subject areas to give presentations to the class. Review articles are drawn from the Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Protostars and Planets IV, and Protostars and Planets V, though I may approve others you find in the literature.

The following list includes all the PP-V contributions (in italics, and numbered with a `P' prefix), and I selected a subset of PP-IV and ARAA papers that are written well. Since the PP-V papers are brand new, it is hard to know how well they are written. They should, however, be current. At this point we have titles only, but the articles should be available by the end of January. So we won't have them for the beginning of the semester but should for the later topics.

All reviews need to be photocopied and handed out one class in advance of when the presentation is to occur. If we all agree to purchase the PP-IV book, this will not be necessary for those articles. Presentations should not be limited strictly to what is in the review. Each of these is like a long AU presentation and will last about 45 minutes, including questions. We'll get done with two presentations each class, so there will be about 52 presentations in all, or about 9 per student.

Students should read the two articles before they come to class. If you are not presenting the article, you should look up one of the references in the article and be prepared to summarize the results from that reference. I will randomly pick someone from each talk as a secondary speaker, and when the main speaker reaches the point where the article is referenced, the secondary speaker will have 2 minutes to present the results of the reference. These references should not be review articles, but rather papers that derive some result that is important to the review.

Th Jan 12: Organization

M Jan 16: **MLK Day No Class

Th Jan 19: Greg (9) / Naved (5)

M Jan 23: Bobby (8) / Christine (1)

Th Jan 26: Aaron (6) / Antoun (7)

M Jan 30: Ram (2) / Antoun (10)

(F, 4pm) Feb 3: Christine (11) / Naved (14)

M Feb 6: Christine (11-cont) / Aaron (12)

Th Feb 9: Ram (3)

Th Feb 13: Greg (19)

M Feb 16: *Question Day*

M Feb 20: Antoun (16)

Th Feb 23: Naved (22) / Ram (Beckwith, Cricumstellar Disks) /

M Feb 27: Bobby (P17)

Th Mar 2: Christine (15) / Greg (P30)

M Mar 6: Aaron (P28) / Antoun (PPIV p247, Weintraub)

F Mar 10: Naved (P38) / Christine (P24)

M Mar 13: **RECESS**

Th Mar 16: **RECESS**

M Mar 20: Ram (P3) / Greg (P34)

Th Mar 23: Aaron (P33) / Antoun (P23)

M Mar 27: Greg (P42) / Aaron (P44)

Th Mar 30: Naved (P41) / Christine (P50)

M Apr 3: Ram (P29) / Naved (P43)

Th Apr 6: **BREAK**

M Apr 10: Antoun (ET-TBD) / Ram (P54)

Th Apr 13: Katherine (P55) / Christine (P49)

M Apr 17: Aaron (P36) / Greg (P35)

Th Apr 20: Proposal Review Handout

M Apr 24:PMH out of town

Th Apr 27: **PROPOSAL REVIEW SESSION**

F Apr 28: **PROPOSAL REVIEW SESSION**/ Course Evaluations

Another possible reference for review articles on outflows is 2003, Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 287. If you choose this volume you'll need to pick only the long (10+ pages) articles. For references, use the web page

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract/_service.html