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This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations organised by the Marie Curie Research Training Network JETSET: Jet Simulations, Experiments and Theory. After the opening two chapters on jet emission, readers can learn the fundamental background of modern high-spatial-resolution techniques, and how such methods have impacted on our understanding of young stars. The lectures provide hands-on insight into Observing from space, e.g. from HST and in the future JWST, and from the ground with adaptive optics, The use of interferometers at millimetre and infrared wavelengths, Spectro-astrometry Image analysis and spectral diagnostic techniques High-Angular Resolution studies of the inner regions of circumstellar disks, which play a fundamental role in jet launching. The books' practical approach makes it an outstanding and extremely useful textbook for PhD students and young researchers in astronomy.

Astrophysical jets --- Circumstellar matter --- Stars --- Astrophysics --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Formation --- Sidereal system --- Circumstellar dust --- Dust, Circumstellar --- Envelopes, Stellar --- Matter, Circumstellar --- Stellar envelopes --- Physics. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy --- Astrophysics. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Observations. --- Jets --- Radio sources (Astronomy) --- Galaxies --- Interstellar matter --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics

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The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an introduction to the subject, starting with basic principles and including all the latest advances from space exploration and theory. It contains a short introduction to plasma physics and discusses the structure of the solar interior and atmosphere, the production of solar wind and its perturbations. It explains the objects of the Solar System, from dust to comets and planets, and their interaction with the solar wind. The final sections explore the astrophysical point of view. The topics are treated at various levels of difficulty both qualitatively and quantitatively. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in earth and atmospheric sciences, and astrophysics.

Solar wind --- Mathematics --- Mathematics. --- Circumstellar matter --- Space plasmas --- Cosmic plasmas --- Plasmas, Cosmic --- Plasmas, Space --- Cosmic physics --- Plasma (Ionized gases) --- Circumstellar dust --- Dust, Circumstellar --- Envelopes, Stellar --- Matter, Circumstellar --- Stellar envelopes --- Interstellar matter --- Stars --- Plasma, Solar --- Solar plasma --- Wind, Solar --- Solar activity --- Stellar winds --- Heliosphere (Astrophysics) --- Sun. --- Solar system --- Solar wind. --- Circumstellar matter. --- Space plasmas. --- Solar wind - Mathematics --- SOLAR WIND --- MATHEMATICS

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Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar imaging technology enabled us to see nascent stars hundreds of light years away. Since then, circumstellar disks have become an area of intense study among astrophysicists, largely because they are thought to be the forerunners of planetary systems like our own-the possible birthplaces of planets. This volume brings

Disks (Astrophysics) --- Stars --- Birth, Stellar --- Formation, Star --- Formation, Stellar --- Stellar birth --- Stellar formation --- Astrophysical discs --- Astrophysical disks --- Discs (Astrophysics) --- Disk systems (Astrophysics) --- Astrophysics --- Formation. --- Evolution --- Disques (Astrophysique) --- Etoiles --- Formation --- new stars, dust, circumstellar disks, space, astronomy, solar system, universe, birth of a star, astrophysics, technology, interstellar, planetary systems, planets, stellar evolution, radiation, magnetohydrodynamics, hydrodynamics, gases, chemical processes, chemistry, physics, science, nonfiction, formation, protoplanetary structure, magnetic fields, dispersal, mineralogy, accretion.