Protostellar Outflows as Agents of Feedback in Star and Star Cluster Formation

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Protostellar Outflows as Agents of Feedback in Star and Star Cluster Formation

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Molecular Cloud Structure and Feedback from Star Formation

Outflows can be destructive

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Properties of Protostellar Outflows:

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Classes of Outflow Models

Models for protostellar winds

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Bipolar outflows driven by hydromagnetic winds

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Comparison to observations

Efficiency of Star Formation

Efficiency of Single Star Formation

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Efficiency of stellar cluster formation

Dynamics of star-forming regions

Dynamics of star-forming regions

Cluster Formation Away from Equilibrium

Conclusions

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Author: Chris Matzner

E-mail: matzner@cita.utoronto.ca

Homepage: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~matzner/

Further information:
Talk presented at: 1. Ontario Star Formation Jamboree, 22 January 2000; 2. Caltech Astronomy Tea Talk, 20 March 2000; 3. Cargese conference on stellar cluster formation, 8 April 2000; 4. CfA star formation seminar, 10 May 2000; 5. CITA seminar, 29 May 2000.