A5 · The interstellar medium & star formation
A 29-module path through a5 · the interstellar medium & star formation, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Phases of the Interstellar Medium
- Interstellar Gas Heating and Cooling Processes
- Thermal Instability and the Two-Phase Medium
- The 21 cm Line of Neutral Hydrogen
- Molecular Clouds and Giant Molecular Clouds
- CO as a Molecular Gas Tracer and the X-Factor
- Interstellar Dust Grains
- Interstellar Extinction and Reddening
- Thermal Dust Emission and Infrared Radiation
- Interstellar Polarization and Magnetic Fields
- The Jeans Instability and Jeans Mass
- Virial Theorem for Molecular Clouds
- Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium
- Magnetic Fields and Ambipolar Diffusion
- Gravitational Collapse and Fragmentation
- Protostellar Collapse and the Class 0–III Sequence
- Protostars and Accretion Disks
- Bipolar Outflows and Herbig-Haro Objects
- Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution
- The Initial Mass Function
- Star Formation Rate and Efficiency
- HII Regions and Photoionization
- Strömgren Spheres
- Recombination Lines and Nebular Diagnostics
- Photodissociation Regions
- Interstellar Chemistry and Molecule Formation
- Astrochemistry of Complex Organic Molecules
- Dense Cores and Prestellar Cores
- Feedback and the Regulation of Star Formation