Open Issues in Local Star Formation [Paperback]

Stellar Groups and Associations.- Major Unsolved Problems in Star Formation.- The Stellar Mass Function of Galactic Clusters and Its Evolution.- Encounters and Close Fly-Bys of Galactic Clusters and Associations in the Past 50 Myr.- Solar-Type Post-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-to-Dust Ratio and Metallurgy of Nearby Dark Clouds Probed by X-ray Absorption Measurements.- Sacy  A Search for Associations Containing Young Stars.- Age Determination of the Ursa Major Association.- Young Stellar Objects.- Accretion Powered Emission in Young Stellar Objects.- The Pre-Main Sequence Spectroscopic Binary AK Sco.- Survey of Young Stellar Objects Associated with Molecular Clouds.- The Stellar Population of Embedded Galactic Massive Star Clusters.- Spectroscopic Analysis of 131 Herbig Ae/Be Candidate Stars.- Classification of the Pico Dos Dias Survey Herbig Ae/Be Stars.- Chemical Composition Study of an Accretion Episode in the Herbig Candidate Star PDS080.- Magnetically Channeled Accretion in T Tauri Stars.- Properties of Young Stellar Objects from High Resolution Near Infrared Spectroscopy.- Probing the Circumstellar Structure of Pre-main Sequence Stars.- Accretion Signatures in the X-Ray Spectrum of TW Hya.- Post-T Tauri Stars Rotation in Associations.- Star Formation in Canis Majoris.- X-ray Emission from NGC 2362.- Accretion and Ejection.- The Origin of Jets in Young Stars.- Non Coeval Young Multiple Systems?.- Brown Dwarfs.- Brown Dwarfs in Young Open Clusters.- Brown Dwarf Companions.- Observational Clues to Brown Dwarf Origins.- Surface Gravity & Mass in Young Brown Dwarfs and Planemos.- Disks, Outflows and Jets.- Fu Orionis Eruptions and the Formation of Close Binaries.- Seds of Flared Dust Disks.- On the Alignment of T Tauri Stars with the Local MlU