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Standing on the shoulder of a giant: ISAAC, Antu, and star formation

Bibcode
2002Msngr.109...28M
McCaughrean, M.; Zinnecker, H.; Andersen, M.; Meeus, G.; Lodieu, N.
Bibliographical reference

The Messenger (ISSN 0722-6691), No. 109, p. 28 - 36 (September 2002)

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2002
Number of authors
5
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
38
Refereed citations
33
Description
In this article, we hope to illustrate the great qualitative and quantitative strides that star-formation studies have taken in the past few years, by looking at three highlights from our own work using the ESO Very Large Telescope UT1, Antu, and its facility near-infrared camera/spectrograph, ISAAC. In particular, we have chosen examples which illustrate a key theme running through our work, namely that of environmental impact, both in the effects that the birthplace of a star can have on its evolution, and in the back reaction that star formation can have on its surroundings. These are just a selection from the sample of young clusters and protostellar objects we are studying with the VLT, and of course, only a small subset of the work being carried out by the broad and active European star- and planet-formation community.
Type
Non-refereed
Star formation

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