CONSTELLATION Research Training Network

WP2 kick-off meeting

From CONSTELLATION

The meeting was held in Bonn, on March 27-28, 2007.

Programme aims and schedule

The topics to be covered are:

1) The initial conditions for massive star formation
Do massive prestellar cores exist
Fragmentation
turbulence
accretion
2) The environment of massive star formation
small scale: discs and binaries
large scale: stellar clusters
3) Feedback from massive stars
support/ destruction of molecular clouds and stellar clusters
triggering of second-generation SF + observational signatures

Meeting participants

Institution Attendees
Exeter
Prague Jan Palous
Potsdam Hans Zinnecker, Thomas Preibisch, Karl Menten
Saclay
Cardiff Ant Whitworth
Lyon/Marseille Lise Deharveng, Annie Zavagno
Lisbon
Tenerife/Madrid
INAF-Palermo/Arcetri
Grenoble
Cambridge
St Andrews Ian Bonnell