SHIPsProposal

Abstract

A short, one or two paragraph, summary of the main points:

Topics to consider when writing this section.

Background
- Why is star-formation important (LYNN)?
- What do we know about star-formation (LYNN)?
- What are the big unknowns?

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments
NITARP pages	Our internal NITARP pages from Luisa, me and others. These are okay because they do comprise your source of knowledge on the subject.
Zinnecker & Yorke (2007)	Toward Understanding Massive Star Formation	Review article on massive star formation	May need to get a free copy.
Dunham et al. (2008)	Identifying the Low-Luminosity Population of Embedded Protostars in the c2d Observations of Clouds and Cores
Evans et al. (2009)	The Spitzer c2d Legacy Results: Star-Formation Rates and Efficiencies; Evolution and Lifetimes

This work
- What aspect of the "unknown" will we address in this work?
- Why is this interesting? How will it help?

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments	Assignment

Target (An important part of carrying on the work).
- What target did we pick?
- Why this target?
- What is known in the literation?

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments	Assignment
Guetter & Turner (1997)	IC 1590, A Young Cluster Embedded in the Nebulosity of NGC 281
Megeath & Wilson (1997)	The NGC 281 west cluster. I. Star formation in photoevaporating clumps.

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments	Assignment

Specifics about data and what to do with the data.

How will the data be readied for this study? (Technical term: reduced, or processed).
Ancillary data
- Where will we get our data?
- How will we supplement our data?
- How will we combine data?

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments	Assignment

What tools will we use?
- To work with the data
- To produce the diagnostic plots.

Reading List
Paper	Title	Description	Comments	Assignment