Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- Spectroscopy of massive stars -- On the lack of main-sequence companions to massive Be stars -- Is HR 6819 a triple system containing a black hole? - An alternative explanation -- The young massive Small Magellanic Cloud Clusters NGC 330...”

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Table of Contents: “...Preface -- Chapter 1: The Formation of Stars and Planets at the Bottom of the Main Sequence -- Chapter 2: Exoplanetary Discovery -- Chapter 3: Planetary Tectonism -- Chapter 4: Deep Cycles and Super-Terrans -- Chapter 5: Atmospheric Circulation...”

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Table of Contents: “...Chapter1. Introduction -- Part I. Scenarios of Lithium Enrichment -- Chapter2. Internal Mechanisms -- Chapter3. External Mechanisms -- Part II. Observational Applications -- Chapter4. Trumpler 20 -- Chapter5. Field Giants -- Chapter6. Stars with Low Main...”

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Table of Contents: “... in Instruments -- Chapter 7: Stars -- Chapter 8: Galaxies and the Universe -- Part 2: 1985-2010 -- Chapter 9: Plans, People, Organisations and Instruments -- Chapter 10: Main-Sequence Stars and Failed Stars -- Chapter 11: Something Completely New: Exoplanets...”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- The Galaxy Formation Model -- Simulated Observations of Sub-millimetre Galaxies: The Impact of Single-dish Resolution and Field Variance -- The Clustering Evolution of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies -- The Far Infra-red Seds of Main-sequence...”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- Rotation Periods of 12 000 Main-sequence Kepler Stars -- Rotational Splitting as a Function of Mode Frequency for Six Sunlike Stars -- Constraining Differential Rotation of Sun-like Stars from Asteroseismic and Starspot Rotation Periods...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Macroscopic Transport Processes -- Part II: Abundance Anomalies in Stellar Evolution -- Upper Main Sequence Stars of Pop I -- Lower Main Sequence Stars of Pop I -- Population II Dwarfs -- Giants -- Horizontal-Branch Stars -- White Dwarfs -- Neutron Stars -- Part...”

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Table of Contents: “...The Theoretical Prediction of the Existence of Brown Dwarfs by Shiv S. Kumar -- Pre-Main Sequence Evolution and the Hydrogen Burning Minimum Mass -- Brown is Not a Color: Introduction of the Term 'Brown Dwarf' -- Teide 1 and the Discovery of Brown Dwarfs...”

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Table of Contents: “... Models -- Stability -- Stellar Birth -- Main Sequence Structure -- Compact Remnants -- Binary Evolution -- Star Cluster Dynamics -- Dynamical Evolution of Binaries -- Useful Constants -- Atomic Properties of Selected Elements -- Closest and Brightest Stars...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 19 Polytropic Gaseous Spheres -- 20 Homology Relations -- 21 Simple Models in the U-V Plane -- 22 The Zero Age Main-Sequence -- 23 Other Main-Sequences -- 24 The Hayashi Line -- 25 Stability Considerations -- Part V Early Stellar Evolution -- 26 The Onset...”

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Table of Contents: “... Lifetimes on the Main Sequence -- 1.8 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram -- 1.9 Summary Remarks -- 1.10 Exercises -- 1.11 References and Suggested Readings -- 2 An Overview of Stellar Evolution -- 2.1 Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) -- 2.2 The Zero-Age Main Sequence...”

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Table of Contents: “...-T Tauri Stars in the Nearest OB Subgroups -- NGC 2362: The Shape of the Pre-Main-Sequence from A-Stars to Brown Dwarfs -- Young Stars and Their Circumstellar Disks in the ? Orionis Cluster -- The Oph-Sco-Lup-Cen-Cru-Mus-Cha Star-formation Region -- The Gas...”

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Table of Contents: “... Star’s Luminosity -- 1.15 The H—R Diagram and a Star’s Mass -- 2 Beginnings — Star Birth -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Interstellar Medium -- 2.3 Nebulae -- 2.4 Molecular Clouds -- 2.5 Protostars -- 2.6 Pre-Main Sequence Evolution -- 2.7 Mass Loss and Mass...”

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Table of Contents: “... of AGN -- Pre-Main Sequence Objects -- Accretion Signatures in Young Stellar Objects -- Evolution of YSO Disks -- X-Rays from YSOs: Desperately Seeking the Central Engine -- New Instrumentation -- Pierre Auger Observatory: Status and Prospects -- Observations...”

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Table of Contents: “.... TAMURA and H. TERADA / H? and HeI Emission in the Jets of Pre-Main Sequence Stars — Implications for the Heating Mechanisms -- Session 4: Jet/Wind Propagation -- T. STANKE / Observations of Molecular Jets in Orion A -- 10.1007/978-94-007-0999-7_25A...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Present Observational Status of High Mass Pulsating Stars -- Old Pulsators: White Dwarfs and their Immediate Precursors -- ? Scuti Pulsations in Pre-Main Sequence Stars -- Solar-like Oscillations in Semiregular Variables -- Discovery of a New Class of Pulsating...”

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