THE STAR FORMATION NEWSLETTER An electronic publication dedicated to early stellar/planetary evolution and molecular clouds No. 297 — 15 September 2017 Editor: Bo Reipurth (
[email protected]) List of Contents The Star Formation Newsletter Interview ...................................... 3 Abstracts of Newly Accepted Papers ........... 6 Editor: Bo Reipurth
[email protected] Dissertation Abstracts ........................ 32 Technical Assistant: Hsi-Wei Yen New Jobs ..................................... 33
[email protected] Meetings ..................................... 35 Summary of Upcoming Meetings ............. 38 Editorial Board Short Announcements ........................ 39 Joao Alves Alan Boss Jerome Bouvier Lee Hartmann Thomas Henning Paul Ho Cover Picture Jes Jorgensen Charles J. Lada The wellknown elephant trunks in M16, imaged Thijs Kouwenhoven by HST, are accompanied by miniature windswept Michael R. Meyer globule splinters like the one portrayed on the cover. Ralph Pudritz The image is a composite of exposures obtained Luis Felipe Rodr´ıguez through [O III], Hα, [S II], wide Y, and near- Ewine van Dishoeck infrared H-band filters. Hans Zinnecker Credits: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/J. Hester, P. Scowen (Arizona The Star Formation Newsletter is a vehicle for State U.) fast distribution of information of interest for as- tronomers working on star and planet formation and molecular clouds. You can submit material for the following sections: Abstracts of recently accepted papers (only for papers sent to refereed journals), Abstracts of recently accepted major re- Submitting your abstracts views (not standard conference contributions), Dis- sertation Abstracts (presenting abstracts of new Latex macros for submitting abstracts Ph.D dissertations), Meetings (announcing meet- and dissertation abstracts (by e-mail to ings broadly of interest to the star and planet for-
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