Welcome

The Star Formation Friends are delighted to host this conference in September 2024 in the West of Ireland to honour the career of Tom Ray. It will also be a great chance to bring together experts within the star formation community in the picturesque west of Ireland in the shadow of Croagh Patrick.

In the celebration conference 'Jets and Young Stars: the Passage from Discovery to JWST and Beyond', we will embark on an exploration of the birth of stars, focusing our attention on understanding jets and winds and their impact on star and planet formation. The conference will be centred around four themes: "Jets at large scales", "Jets at small scales: disks, winds and jets", "Magnetic fields & non-thermal processes in young objects" and "planet formation

Scientific Rationale

Recent progress has shone a light on the fundamental role that jets and winds likely play in the star formation process. By removing angular momentum from the surrounding protoplanetary disk and allowing accretion to proceed they facilitate the formation of the star. With the realisation that planetary formation begins much earlier than previously thought, jets may also affect the properties of planetary systems, as they influence the initial disk characteristics. Paradoxically, while outflows enable accretion they are also powered by it as without accretion there is no ejection. Professor Tom Ray has played a fundamental role in the determination of the importance of jets and winds and their connection to accretion disks. He started his career with extragalactic radio jets, investigated the magnetic fields of young stars, made some of the first CCD observations of jets and in the first years of the Hubble Space Telescope harnessed its power for the study of jet launching. He has observed jets, winds and disks across the electromagnetic spectrum from radio to x-rays and his work has been central to the evolution of our understanding of the synergy between jets and disks and the importance of outflows. His involvement with the James Webb Space Telescope is a clear highlight of his career. The JWST along with the soon to arrive E-ELT will undoubtedly drive his work for many years to come. To mark his career we will host a meeting to discuss the latest developments in this field and to plan for a bright future full of discovery.

The main sessions of the conference are:

1- The Global Effects of Jets and Winds

2- Zooming-in on Jets, Disks, and Winds

3- Magnetic Fields and non-Thermal Processes in Young Objects

4- The finale: Planet Formation

The following speakers are confirmed:

Xuening Bai (Tsinghua University, China, invited review)

Bertram Bitsch (University College Cork, Ireland, invited review)

Catherine Dougados (Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, France, invited review)

Gaitee Hussain (European Space Agency, invited review)

Marco Padovani (Arcetri Observatory, Italy, invited review)

Ilaria Pascucci (University of Arizona, USA, invited review)

Alessio Caratti o Garatti (INAF, Italy, invited talk)

Deirdre Coffey (University College Dublin, Ireland, invited talk)

Jochen Eislöffel (TLS, Germany, invited talk)

Anton Feeney-Johansson (ASTRON, Japan, invited talk)

Christian Ginski (University of Galway, Ireland, invited talk)

Josep Miquel Girart (ICE-CSIC, Spain, invited talk)

Rachel Harrison (Monash University, USA, invited talk)

Sasha Hinkley (University of Exeter, UK, invited talk)

Ugo Lebreully (CEA Saclay, France, invited talk)

Julien Morin (CNRS & Universitè de Montpellier, France, invited talk)

Aisling Murphy (ASIAA, Taiwan, invited talk)

Giulia Perotti (MPIA, Germany, invited talk)

Paola Pinilla (Mullard Space Science Laboratory/UCL, UK, invited talk)

Linda Podio (INAF, Italy, invited talk)

Megan Reiter (Rice University, USA, invited talk)

Adriana Rodriguez Kamenetzky (Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental, Argentina, invited talk)

Alberto Sanna (INAF, Italy, invited talk)

Anna Scaife (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, UK, invited talk)

Shinsuke Takasao (Osaka University, Japan, invited talk)

More coming soon!

Organising Committees

Scientific Organising Committee:

Antonella Natta -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), chair

Francesca Bacciotti -- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) / Osservatorio di Arcetri

Myriam Benisty -- Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG)

Carlos Carrasco González -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) / Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA)

Pat Hartigan -- Rice University

Thomas Henning -- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)

Ralph Pudritz -- McMaster University

Donna Rodgers-Lee -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)

Aleks Scholz -- University of St. Andrews

Michihiro Takami -- Academia Sinica / Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAA)

Giovanna Tinetti -- University College London (UCL)

Emma Whelan -- Maynooth University (MU)

Local Organising Committee:

Donna Rodgers-Lee -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), co-chair

Emma Whelan -- Maynooth University (MU), co-chair

Stephenie Brophy Lee -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)

Rubén Fedriani -- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)

Eileen Flood -- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)

Rebeca Garcia-Lopez -- University College Dublin (UCD)

Patrick Kavanagh -- Maynooth University (MU)

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from Failte Ireland and Meet in Ireland. Please visit https://www.discoverireland.ie/