This volume offers a background in modern high spatial resolution techniques, illustrating how such methods have impacted on our understanding of young stars. It provides hands-on insight into observing from space as well as the ground, the use of interferometers at millimeter and infrared wavelengths, spectro-astrometry, image analysis and spectral diagnostic techniques, and High Angular Resolution studies of the inner regions of circumstellar disks that play a fundamental role in jet launching. It also gives practical guidance on writing proposals and papers as well as developing public outreach skills.

Inhalt

Jet Emission.- Stellar Jets: Clues to the Process of Star and Planet Formation.- Measurement of Physical Conditions in Stellar Jets.- Adaptive Optics, and Space Observations Spectro-astrometry.- Basic Concepts and Parameters of Astronomical AO Systems.- IR Spectroscopy of Jets: Diagnostics and HAR Observations.- Observing YSO Jets with Adaptive Optics: Techniques and Main Results.- Spectro-astrometry: The Method, its Limitations, and Applications.- Observations of YSO Jets from Space: HST and Beyond.- Observations and Models of X-ray Emission from Jets of Infant Stars.- Interferometry: Technique and Applications.- Principles of Interferometry.- (Sub)mm Interferometry Applications in Star Formation Research.- Observing Young Stellar Objects with Very Large Telescope Interferometer.- Presentation of AMBER/VLTI Data Reduction.- High Angular Resolution Observations of Disks.