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| As Eyes See Young Stars Assemble: Star and Planet Formation in the VLT Era | |
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| Mapping the Interstellar Dust with Near-Infrared Observations: An Optimized Multi-Band Technique | |
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| Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores | |
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| Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View | |
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| The Physical Structure of a Prestellar Core in IC 5146 | |
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| From Infall to Rotation Around Young Stellar Objects | |
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| Mass Spectra from Turbulent Fragmentation | |
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| From Molecular Clouds to Planets: Prospects for ALMA | |
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| Continuum Polarization as a Tool: A Perspective for VLT and ALMA | |
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| The Mineralogy and Magnetism of Star and Planet Formation as Revealed by Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry | |
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| From the Sun to Jupiter: Evolution of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs down to Planetary Masses | |
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| Core Collapse and the Formation of Binaries | |
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| The Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Binary Systems: How Will VLT(I) Help? | |
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| The Formation of Brown Dwarfs | |
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| Disk Orientation in PMS Binary Systems Determined Through Polarimetric Imaging with UT1/FORS | |
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| Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs in Cha I | |
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| Imaging with the VLT | |
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| The Formation of a Cluster of Stars and Brown Dwarfs in a Turbulent Molecular Cloud | |
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| Submm and MIR Imaging of Protostellar Clusters | |
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| Infrared Imaging of Embedded Clusters: Constraints for Star and Planet Formation | |
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| Modes of Star Formation and Constraints on the Birth Aggregate of our Solar System | |
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| The VLT and the Powers of 10: Young Clusters Home and Away | |
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| NIR Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of L-Dwarfs: An Efficient Classification Scheme for Faint Dwarfs | |
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| VLT/FORS Spectroscopy in [sigma] Orionis: Isolated Planetary Mass Candidate Members | |
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| Infrared Spectroscopy of Sub-Stellar Objects in Orion | |
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| Young Stars in [rho] Ophiuchi: Toward the Completeness down to Substellar Masses | |
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| Variability and Rotation in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs | |
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| Infrared Observation of Hot Cores | |
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| An Overview of Induced Star Formation Near the Surfaces of Molecular Clouds | |
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| Ices in Star-Forming Regions: First Results from VLT-ISAAC | |
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| The Spectacular BHR 71 Outflow | |
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| High Angular Resolution Analyses of Herbig-Haro Jets | |
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| Structure of Magnetocentrifugal Disk-Winds: From the Launching Surface to Large Distances | |
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| Into the Twilight Zone: Reaching the Jet Engine with AMBER/VLTI | |
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| T Tauri Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Combined HST and VLT Effort | |
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| High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy of Protostars with Large Telescopes | |
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| VLT/ISAAC Spectroscopy of Young Massive Stars Embedded in Ultra-Compact H II Regions | |
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| NGC 3603 IRS 9: The Revealment of a Cluster of Protostars and the Potential of Mid-IR Imaging with VLT + VISIR | |
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| Sub-Arcsecond Millimeter Imaging of Disks and Envelopes: Probing the Density Structure | |
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| VLA Studies of Disks Around T Tauri Stars | |
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| A Close View on the Protoplanetary Disk in the Bok Globule CB26 | |
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| Detecting Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks with MIDI at the VLTI | |
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| The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: Lessons from the VLT and ISO | |
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| The Destruction of Circumstellar Discs | |
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| VISIR and the Formation of Stars and Planets | |
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| Mid Infrared Variability of Herbig Ae/Be Stars | |
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| Prospects for Star Formation Studies with Mid-Infrared Instruments on Large Telescopes | |
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| Adaptive Optics Search for Faint Companions Around Young Nearby Stars | |
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| Extra-Solar Planetary Systems in the VLT Era | |
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| Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Substellar Companions Next to Young Nearby Stars in TWA | |
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| VLT Observations of the Young Stellar Object TMR-1 | |
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| Searching for Planets in Stellar Clusters: Preliminary Results from the Hyades | |
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| The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk | |
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| The VLTI and Its Instrumentation | |
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| Observing Young Stellar Objects with the VLT Interferometer | |
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| Preparing for the VLTI: A Search for Pre-Main Sequence Spectroscopic Binaries | |
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| From Protoplanetary to Debris Disks | |
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| Turbulent Radial Mixing in the Solar Nebula as the Source of Crystalline Silicates in Comets | |
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| X-Rays from Star-Forming Regions in the VLT Era | |
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| The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: SIRTF in the VLT Era | |
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| The Herschel Space Observatory and the Earliest Stages of Star Formation | |
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| A Look Forward to Star and Planet Formation with the NGST | |
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| Origin of Stars and Planets: The View from 2021 | |
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| Author Index | |