Bibcode
McCaughrean, M.; Zinnecker, H.; Andersen, M.; Meeus, G.; Lodieu, N.
Bibliographical reference
The Messenger (ISSN 0722-6691), No. 109, p. 28 - 36 (September 2002)
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2002
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Description
In this article, we hope to illustrate the great qualitative and
quantitative strides that star-formation studies have taken in the past
few years, by looking at three highlights from our own work using the
ESO Very Large Telescope UT1, Antu, and its facility near-infrared
camera/spectrograph, ISAAC. In particular, we have chosen examples which
illustrate a key theme running through our work, namely that of
environmental impact, both in the effects that the birthplace of a star
can have on its evolution, and in the back reaction that star formation
can have on its surroundings. These are just a selection from the sample
of young clusters and protostellar objects we are studying with the VLT,
and of course, only a small subset of the work being carried out by the
broad and active European star- and planet-formation community.