Frank Shu

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Frank Shu is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stony Brook University, University of California, San Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Frank Hsia-San Shu was a Chinese-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and author. He served as a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego. He is best known for proposing the density wave theory to explain the structure of spiral galaxies, and for describing a model of star formation, where a giant dense molecular cloud collapses to form a star.

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Star Formation in Molecular Clouds: Observation and Theory (1987) (1825)
Self-similar collapse of isothermal spheres and star formation. (1977) (1272)
On the Spiral Structure of Disk Galaxies. (1964) (821)
Spectral evolution of young stellar objects (1986) (615)
Magnetocentrifugally driven flows from young stars and disks. 1: A generalized model (1994) (593)
The collapse of the cores of slowly rotating isothermal clouds (1984) (498)
Toward an Astrophysical Theory of Chondrites (1996) (476)
The physics of astrophysics. (1992) (458)
Photoevaporation of Disks around Massive Stars and Application to Ultracompact H II Regions (1994) (456)
Gas dynamics of semidetached binaries (1975) (417)
Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Instability (2002) (389)
ON THE SPIRAL STRUCTURE OF DISK GALAXIES. III. COMPARISON WITH OBSERVATIONS. (1969) (355)
X-rays and Fluctuating X-Winds from Protostars (1997) (339)
The Origin of Chondrules and Refractory Inclusions in Chondritic Meteorites (2001) (308)
THE ORIGIN AND LIFETIME OF GIANT MOLECULAR CLOUD COMPLEXES (1980) (304)
Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian disks (1989) (255)
The evolution of protostars. I - Global formulation and results (1980) (241)
On the spiral structure of disk galaxies, ii. Outline of a theory of density waves. (1966) (241)
Protostellar Cosmic Rays and Extinct Radioactivities in Meteorites (1998) (226)
Collapse of magnetized molecular cloud cores. I: Semianalytical solution (1993) (212)
Collapse of Magnetized Singular Isothermal Toroids. II. Rotation and Magnetic Braking (2003) (199)
Activity in Very Cool Stars: Magnetic Dissipation in Late M and L Dwarf Atmospheres (2002) (197)
Molecular cloud cores and bimodal star formation (1989) (196)
Collapse of Magnetized Molecular Cloud Cores. II. Numerical Results (1993) (186)
Sling amplification and eccentric gravitational instabilities in gaseous disks (1990) (183)
The gravitational collapse of a uniform spheroid. (1965) (182)
Magnetocentrifugally Driven Flows from Young Stars and Disks. V. Asymptotic Collimation into Jets (1995) (182)
Extinct Radioactivities and Protosolar Cosmic Rays: Self-Shielding and Light Elements (2001) (178)
Infrared Spectra of Rotating Protostars (1986) (175)
Magnetized Singular Isothermal Toroids (1996) (174)
The disks of T Tauri stars with flat infrared spectra (1987) (160)
Magnetocentrifugally Driven Flows from Young Stars and Disks. IV. The Accretion Funnel and Dead Zone (1995) (159)
Star formation and the nature of bipolar outflows (1991) (154)
Mass loss from rapidly rotating magnetic protostars (1988) (150)
Galactic Shocks in an Interstellar Medium with Two Stable Phases (1971) (146)
Heating and Ionization of X-Winds (2001) (131)
Photoevaporation of the Solar Nebula and the Formation of the Giant Planets (1993) (130)
Gravitational Collapse of Magnetized Clouds. I. Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Flow (2006) (128)
Magnetocentrifugally driven flows from young stars and disks. 2: Formulation of the dynamical problem (1994) (125)
On the Density-Wave Theory of Galactic Spirals. II. The Propagation of the Density of Wave Action (1970) (124)
Nonlinear Gaseous Density Waves and Galactic Shocks (1973) (122)
Ambipolar diffusion in self-gravitating isothermal layers (1983) (117)
The Irradiation Origin of Beryllium Radioisotopes and Other Short-lived Radionuclides (2005) (116)
Magnetocentrifugally driven flows from young stars and disks. 3: Numerical solution of the sub-Alfvenic region (1994) (114)
Kinematic Diagnostics of Disks around Young Stars: CO Overtone Emission from WL 16 and 1548C27 (1995) (114)
Waves in planetary rings (1984) (106)
Density wave theory and the classification of spiral galaxies. (1975) (104)
The physical universe : an introduction to astronomy (1982) (102)
Bending waves in Saturn's rings☆ (1983) (95)
Nonlinear spiral density waves - Viscous damping (1985) (95)
AAS Position on the Space Station. (1994) (92)
Synthetic Images and Long-Slit Spectra of Protostellar Jets (1998) (85)
The Physical Universe (1981) (82)
Physics of Astrophysics, Vol. II: Gas Dynamics (1991) (79)
Self-similar Champagne Flows in H II Regions (2002) (77)
Gravitational Collapse of Magnetized Clouds. II. The Role of Ohmic Dissipation (2006) (74)
Gas dynamics of semidetached binaries. II. The vertical structure of the stream (1976) (74)
MODELS OF PARTIALLY RELAXED STELLAR DISKS (1969) (74)
The Physics of Astrophysics, Volume II: Gas Dynamics (2009) (74)
The evolution of protostars. II - The hydrostatic core (1980) (74)
Self-Similar Collapse of an Isopedic Isothermal Disk (1997) (74)
Low-Mass Star Formation: Theory (1999) (73)
Six Decades of Spiral Density Wave Theory (2016) (71)
Magnetic Forces in an Isopedic Disk (1997) (71)
On the statistical mechanics of violent relaxation (1978) (70)
The collisional dynamics of particulate disks (1985) (70)
Does Magnetic Levitation or Suspension Define the Masses of Forming Stars? (2003) (68)
Nonlinear spiral density waves: an inviscid theory (1985) (68)
The Inner-Disk and Stellar Properties of the Young Stellar Object WL 16 (1993) (67)
Mean Field Magnetohydrodynamics of Accretion Disks (2007) (66)
Moonlets in Saturn's rings? (1981) (65)
Density waves in Saturn's rings (1981) (65)
Magnetocentrifugally Driven Flows from Young Stars and Disks. VI. Accretion with a Multipole Stellar Field (2008) (65)
Neutral stellar winds that drive bipolar outflows in low-mass protostars (1988) (63)
Infrared emission from protostars (1985) (61)
Branch, Spur, and Feather Formation in Spiral Galaxies (2003) (57)
X-Winds Theory and Observations (2000) (50)
Mass, Angular Momentum, and Energy Transfer in Close Binary Stars (1981) (50)
The Formation of Sunlike Stars (1990) (49)
On the structure of contact binaries. III. Mass and energy flow. (1979) (48)
On the Density-Wave Theory of Galactic Spirals. I. Spiral Structure as a Normal Mode of Oscillation (1970) (46)
Physics of Astrophysics, Vol. II (1991) (43)
X-Winds in Action (2007) (42)
The evolution of protostars. III - The accretion envelope (1981) (41)
Singular Isothermal Disks. I. Linear Stability Analysis (2000) (40)
On the Density-Wave Theory of Galactic Spirals. III. Comparisons with External Galaxies (1971) (38)
Interaction of Wide-Angle MHD Winds with Flared Disks (1996) (36)
Collapse of Magnetized Singular Isothermal Toroids. I. The Nonrotating Case (2003) (35)
The extrapolated central surface brightness of galaxies (1979) (32)
On the structure of contact binaries. I - The contact discontinuity (1976) (32)
Near-resonant excitation and propagation of eccentric density waves by external forcing. [in accretion disks] (1992) (31)
Singular Isothermal Disks. II. Nonaxisymmetric Bifurcations and Equilibria (2000) (31)
The physics of astrophysics. Volume 1: Radiation. (1991) (27)
Free-free Radio Emission from Young Stellar Objects (2004) (26)
PARKER INSTABILITY IN A REALISTIC GRAVITATIONAL FIELD (1993) (25)
FEATHERING INSTABILITY OF SPIRAL ARMS. I. FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM (2012) (24)
Viscosity in Saturn's rings (1984) (24)
Formation of interstellar cloud complexes, OB associations, and giant H II regions (1974) (23)
On the light curves of W Ursae Majoris stars. (1976) (22)
The Challenge of Sub-Keplerian Rotation for Disk Winds (2008) (22)
Thermal structure of neutral winds from young stellar objects (1990) (22)
The collapse of clouds and the formation and evolution of stars and disks (1993) (21)
Scale-free Equilibria of Isopedic Polytropic Clouds (1999) (21)
Star Formation in Molecular Clouds (1985) (20)
Dynamics of Close Binary Systems; Double Stars; and Interacting Binary Stars (1979) (20)
Ambipolar Diffusion in Molecular Cloud Cores and the Gravomagneto Catastrophe (2007) (19)
On statistical mechanical theories of violent relaxation (1987) (18)
The formation of cool stars from cloud cores (1984) (17)
The Formation of Low Mass Stars: Theory (1990) (17)
A Toy Model of Giant Molecular Clouds (2000) (16)
Selected papers of C.C. Lin (1987) (14)
Why extended radio doubles are found in elliptical galaxies (1980) (12)
Star formation in molecular cloud cores (1987) (12)
High-resolution radio imaging of two luminous quasars beyond redshift 4.5 (2018) (11)
Formation of OB Associations in Galaxies (2007) (11)
Physics of Astrophysics: Volume I Radiation (1991) (11)
Density-Wave Theory of Spiral Structure (1971) (11)
Magnetization, accretion, and outflows in young stellar objects (2007) (11)
PARKER INSTABILITY IN DIFFERENTIALLY-ROTATING DISKS (1974) (10)
FORMATION AND HEATING OF MOLECULAR CLOUD CORES (1987) (9)
Collapse of Magnetised, Singular Isothermal Toroids (2001) (8)
Collapse of Singular Isothermal Spheres to Black Holes (2005) (8)
Beginning and End of a Low-Mass Protostar (1988) (8)
On the structure of contact binaries. II. Zero-age models. (1977) (8)
Erratum: "Magnetocentrifugally Driven Flows from Young Stars and Disks. V. Asymptotic Collimation into Jets" (ApJ, 455, L155 [1995]) (1996) (7)
Protostellar X-rays, Jets, and Bipolar Outflows (1997) (7)
Relativistic Self-similar Disks (2001) (7)
Star Formation and the Circumstellar Matter of Young Stellar Objects (1987) (7)
MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS IN PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE BINARIES (2011) (7)
Protostellar disks and star formation (1985) (6)
A theoretical atlas of light curves and rotation broadening functions for contact binary stars (1979) (6)
Density waves in disk galaxies. (1967) (6)
OUTLINE OF A THEORY OF DENSITY WAVES (2003) (5)
Early Solar System Irradiation and Beryllium-7 Synthesis (2003) (5)
On various criticisms of the contact discontinuity model (1980) (5)
Singular Isothermal Disks (2000) (5)
The stellar initial mass function (2003) (5)
Relativistic Singular Isothermal Toroids (2003) (5)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change (2019) (4)
Book-Review - the Physics of Astrophysics - V.2 - Gas Dynamics (1992) (3)
On the Genetic Relation between Interstellar Clouds and Dust Clouds (1973) (3)
Mass Transfer in Semi-Detached Binaries (1976) (3)
The Origin of Chondrites and Extinct Radioactivities in the Solar System (1997) (3)
On the structure of contact binaries. IV. High-mass models. (1979) (3)
ON THE ROLE OF PHOTOSPHERIC CONVECTION IN W-URSAE MAJORIS STARS (1978) (3)
Applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, astrophysics : a symposium to honor C.C. Lin, 22-24 June 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (1988) (2)
Chaos in Spiral Galaxies (2004) (2)
ROLE OF GASEOUS DISSIPATION IN DENSITY WAVES OF FINITE AMPLITUDE. (1972) (2)
Molecules in star formation (1996) (2)
Global Change and the Energy Crisis (2)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change (2019) (2)
The Triple Radio Continuum Source in Serpens : The Birth of a Herbig-Haro System ? (2005) (2)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change Part I (2019) (2)
Refractory Phases of Micrometeorites and the ``Primitivity'' of Cometary Nuclei (2001) (2)
Winds from Low Mass Protostars (1988) (2)
The Origin of Short-lived Radionuclides and Early Solar System Irradiation (2004) (2)
MAGNETIC BRAKING AND FIELD DISSIPATION IN THE PROTOSTELLAR ACCRETION PHASE (2008) (2)
Astrophysics of X-ray Irradiated Protoplanetary Disks (2008) (2)
Infrared spectra of young stellar objects (1988) (2)
Zero-Age Models of Contact Binaries. (1976) (1)
The Role of Dust in Star Formation - Part Four - Nebular Disks around Young Stellar Objects (1989) (1)
Extinct Radioactivities in Meteorites and Protosolar Cosmic Rays: The Effect of Self-Shielding (2000) (1)
Theories of Contact Binary Stars (1980) (1)
The Expanding Universe and the Large-Scale Geometry of Spacetime. (1983) (1)
Stellar systems in theory (1988) (1)
Summary of symposium: Low luminosity sources (1987) (1)
The Birth of Sunlike Stars (1995) (1)
Nonaxisymmetric Neutral Modes in Relativistic Disks (2004) (1)
Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Instability—The Goldreich-Ward Hypothesis Revisited (2004) (1)
Non-Axisymmetric Modes in Relativistic Singular Isothermal Disks (2004) (0)
The SMA and Galactic Star Formation (2010) (0)
The Formation of Preplanetary Disks from the Collapse of Rotating Molecular Cloud Cores (1985) (0)
Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs: Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian discs (1989) (0)
What Do Meteorites Tell Us about the Formation of the Solar System (2000) (0)
AAS Position on the Space Station (1994) (0)
Molecular Cloud Cores and Star Formation (1986) (0)
The Propagation and Absorption of Spiral Density Waves (1970) (0)
Theories of the Origin of Chondrites/Chondrules (2001) (0)
Observations of radio stars in geodetic VLBI experiments (2020) (0)
Star Formation, Near and Far (1998) (0)
Star formation - A theoretician's view (1991) (0)
SPUR , AND FEATHER FORMATION IN SPIRAL GALAXIES (2003) (0)
Erratum: 'Mass, angular momentum and energy transfer in close binary stars' [Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., Vol. 19, 277 - 293 (1981)]. (1982) (0)
Singular Isothermal Disks, Paper 2: Nonaxiymmetric Bifurcations and Equilibria (2013) (0)
Hot Gas in the Galaxy: How Extensive is it? (1978) (0)
The Role of Dust in Star Formation - Part Two - Radiative Transfer in Dust Envelopes (1989) (0)
A Quantitative Model for Bipolar Molecular Outflows (1996) (0)
On a Mass-Energy Angular Momentum Relation for Spiral Galaxies. (1971) (0)
Generalized Multipole X-Wind Model (2009) (0)
Singular isothermal sphere and black hole formation (2004) (0)
2 What Do We Really Want to Know ? (2008) (0)
Studies of Star Formation with SIRTF (1986) (0)
ERRATUM: “GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF MAGNETIZED CLOUDS. I. IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC ACCRETION FLOW” (2006, ApJ, 647, 374) (2012) (0)
POST‐USE REVIEW: The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy (1984) (0)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change ∗ Part II (2019) (0)
MAGNETIZED DISKS AROUND YOUNG STARS (2009) (0)
Making Radio Jets from the X-wind Model (2006) (0)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change (2019) (0)
Making Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions and Chondrules near the Young Sun by Flares (2000) (0)
Stopping and Reversing Climate Change (2019) (0)
ERRATUM: “GAS DYNAMICS OF SEMIDETACHED BINARIES. II - THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF THE STREAM” (1976, ApJ, 207, L53) (2014) (0)
A Theory of the IMF (2005) (0)
STAR FORMATION AND THE LUNAR INITIATIVE (1990) (0)
The evolution of molecular clouds (1988) (0)
Selected Papers of C C Lin with Commentary: Vol. 1: Fluid MechanicsVol. 2: Astrophysics (1987) (0)
Book-Review - the Physical Universe - a Introduction to Astronomy (1983) (0)
The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Protostellar Accretion Phase (2010) (0)
Spiral Structure in Galaxies (2010) (0)
Champagne Flows and Winds in H II Regions (2003) (0)
Applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, astrophysics. Proceedings. (1988) (0)
APPENDIX 2.A NOAO PANEL WORKSHOP ON SCIENCE WITH THE GSMT (2002) (0)
Chia-Chiao Lin (1916–2013) (2013) (0)
ERRATUM: “GAS DYNAMICS OF SEMIDETACHED BINARIES” (1975, ApJ, 198, 383) (2014) (0)
Planetary ring dynamics and morphology (1987) (0)
Rotation Broadening and the Shapes of W Ursae Majoris Stars (1980) (0)
From Magnetized Cores to Protoplanetary Disks (2009) (0)
SIRTF and star formation (1988) (0)
Ambipolar Diffusion and X-ray Heating of the X-wind Jet (2001) (0)
Fluid mechanics and applied mathematics (1987) (0)
Theory of Protostellar Objects (1986) (0)
A Coincidental Move (1994) (0)
Professor Chia-Chiao Lin (1916–2013) (2013) (0)
Why do Molecular Clouds Give Birth to Objects like Stars (1986) (0)
On the Strength of the Galactic Shock Wave and the Degree of Development of Spiral Structure (1974) (0)
Singular Isothermal Disks and the Formation of Multiple Stars (2000) (0)
Geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( VLBI ) data are capable of measuring the light deflection caused by the gravitational field of the Sun and (2019) (0)
The dense interstellar medium and the birthplaces of OB stars (1990) (0)
Ekman Pumping in a Rotating Protostar (1990) (0)
FIELD MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS OF ACCRETION DISKS (2007) (0)
Heating of molecular cloud cores (1987) (0)
ASYMPTOTICS AND STAR FORMATION (2007) (0)
Externally Induced Evaporation of Young Stellar Disks in Orion (1996) (0)
ON EFFECTS OF FINITE DISK THICKNESS AND GAS CONTENT ON SPIRAL STRUCTURE (1968) (0)

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