THE NEWSLETTER An electronic publication dedicated to early stellar/planetary evolution and molecular clouds No. 314 — 17 February 2019 Editor: Bo Reipurth ([email protected]) List of Contents

The Star Formation Newsletter Interview ...... 3 My Favorite Object ...... X Editor: Bo Reipurth [email protected] Perspective ...... XX

Associate Editor: Anna McLeod Abstracts of Newly Accepted Papers ...... XX [email protected] Abstracts of Newly Accepted Major Reviews XX Technical Editor: Hsi-Wei Yen Dissertation Abstracts ...... XX [email protected] New Jobs ...... XX

Editorial Board Meetings ...... XX Summary of Upcoming Meetings ...... XX Joao Alves Alan Boss New Books ...... XX Jerome Bouvier Short Announcements ...... XX Lee Hartmann Thomas Henning Paul Ho Jes Jorgensen Charles J. Lada Thijs Kouwenhoven Cover Picture Michael R. Meyer Ralph Pudritz Messier 16 is the bright HII region excited by the Luis Felipe Rodr´ıguez massive OB stars in the NGC 6611 cluster. The dis- Ewine van Dishoeck tance to M16 is about 1.7-1.8 kpc and the cluster is Hans Zinnecker about 2-3 Myr old. Embedded in the HII region are the large elephant trunks seen in the now famous The Star Formation Newsletter is a vehicle for HST images of the region. fast distribution of information of interest for as- Image courtesy ESO. 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- views (not standard conference contributions), Dis- sertation Abstracts (presenting abstracts of new Submitting your abstracts Ph.D dissertations), Meetings (announcing meet- Latex macros for submitting abstracts ings broadly of interest to the star and planet for- and dissertation abstracts (by e-mail to mation and early solar system community), New [email protected]) are appended to Jobs (advertising jobs specifically aimed towards each Call for Abstracts. You can also persons within the areas of the Newsletter), and submit via the Newsletter web inter- Short Announcements (where you can inform or re- face at http://www2.ifa.hawaii.edu/star- quest information from the community). Addition- formation/index.cfm ally, the Newsletter brings short overview articles on objects of special interest, physical processes or theoretical results, the early solar system, as well as occasional interviews. Newsletter Archive www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/reipurth/newsletter.htm The Star Formation Newsletter seeks a WEBMASTER

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Bo Reipurth

3 profiles, a somewhat bothersome result! If one looks at other HH objects, this result appears to be a general fea- Alex Raga ture of HH objects, and is one of the important remaining in conversation with Bo Reipurth problems in their interpretation. Q: For the past 30 years, you have published prolifically with your colleague