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早期:小莱曼·斯皮策和恒星形成的物理学

The Early Years: Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and the Physics of Star Formation

Bruce G. Elmegreen

摘要:

星际介质的发现和小莱曼·斯皮策的早期工作。在20世纪50年代早期,恒星形成在当代仍在继续。在此之前,恒星被认为是在宇宙开始时才形成的。20世纪30年代的主要争论是,恒星的年龄是由宇宙膨胀和陨石所提出的~3 Gyr的年轻年龄,还是由热化恒星运动所提出的10^{13} yr的年老年龄。在20世纪50年代早期,Ambartsumian关于现代恒星形成的主张的采用是缓慢和混合的。虽然一些天文学家,如阿德里安·布劳(Adriaan Blaauw)立即跟进,从他们自己的数据中添加了更多内容,但其他人的变化很慢。到20世纪50年代末,莱曼已经推导出了我们今天所认识的恒星形成的基本理论。

英文摘要:

The discovery of the interstellar medium and the early work of Lyman Spitzer, Jr. are reviewed here in the context of the remarkable observation in the early 1950's that star formation continues in the present age. Prior to this observation, stars were thought to have formed only at the beginning of the universe. The main debate in the 1930's was whether stars had the young age of ~3 Gyr suggested by the expansion of the universe and the meteorites, or the old age of 10^{13} yr suggested by thermalized stellar motions. The adoption of Ambartsumian's claim of modern-day star formation was slow and mixed in the early 1950's. While some astronomers like Adriaan Blaauw immediately followed, adding more from their own data, others were slow to change. By the end of the 1950's, Lyman had deduced the basic theory for star formation that we would recognize today.

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