Protostellar Jets in Context, 2009
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings Series

It is over a quarter of a century since the discovery of out?ows from young stars. The intervening years have led to remarkable advances in our understanding of this phenomenon. Much of the progress can be attributed to advances in facilities and technologies, including not only larger telescopes but also improved instrument and detector performance. In addition protostellar out?ows have now been imaged from the ground and space at high spatial resolution, e. g. with HST, and at a wide - riety of wavelengths from X-rays to radio waves, revealing more and more about their physics. This veritable revolution in observation has been accompanied by an exponential growth in our ability to numerically simulate the launching and pro- gation of jets. Codes continue to improve: they now incorporate more physics and are increasingly ef?cient through, for example, techniques such as adaptive mesh re?nement and the use of parallel processing in cluster environments. Simulating the launching and propagation of a jet all the way from the vicinity of the star up to 4 several thousand AU (a size range of10 ) is now much closer. In more recent times, developments in observation, theory and numerical s- ulation have been joined by laboratory jet experiments reproducing, on centimetre scales, that which is seen in astrophysics to stretch for several parsecs.

Part I Introductory Reviews.- Part II The star/jet/disk system.- Part III Jet launching.- Part IV Session III: Observational constraints on jet launching.- Part IV Session III: Observational constraints on jet launching.- Part V Jet propagation, stability, interaction with the environment, X-ray emission.- Part VI Molecular outflows and Turbulence injection by jets.- Part VII JETSET early stage researcher presentations.- Part VIII Posters.

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