Accretion onto pre-main-sequence stars

L Hartmann, G Herczeg, N Calvet - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Accretion through circumstellar disks plays an important role in star formation and in
establishing the properties of the regions in which planets form and migrate. The …

PRODIGE–envelope to disk with NOEMA-I. A 3000 au streamer feeding a Class I protostar

MT Valdivia-Mena, JE Pineda, DM Segura-Cox… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. In the past few years, there has been a rise in the detection of streamers,
asymmetric flows of material directed toward the protostellar disk with material from outside …

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). VI. Kinematic Structures around the Very-low-mass Protostar IRAS 16253-2429

Y Aso, W Kwon, N Ohashi, JK Jørgensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise estimates of protostellar masses are crucial to characterize the formation of stars of
low masses down to brown dwarfs (BDs; M*< 0.08 M☉). The most accurate estimation of …

Formation of massive primordial stars: intermittent UV feedback with episodic mass accretion

T Hosokawa, S Hirano, R Kuiper… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present coupled stellar evolution (SE) and 3D radiation-hydrodynamic (RHD)
simulations of the evolution of primordial protostars, their immediate environment, and the …

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models

JC Morales, AJ Mustill, I Ribas, MB Davies, A Reiners… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Surveys have shown that super-Earth and Neptune-mass exoplanets are more frequent than
gas giants around low-mass stars, as predicted by the core accretion theory of planet …

Quantifying Variability of Young Stellar Objects in the Mid-infrared Over 6 Years with the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

W Park, JE Lee, CC Peña, D Johnstone… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) can be caused by various time-dependent
phenomena associated with star formation, including accretion rates, geometric changes in …

A near-infrared spectroscopic survey of fu orionis objects

MS Connelley, B Reipurth - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We have conducted a homogeneous near-infrared (near-IR) spectroscopic survey of 33
objects with varying degrees of similarity to FU Orionis. Common spectroscopic features that …

The spots models: a grid of theoretical stellar evolution tracks and isochrones for testing the effects of starspots on structure and colors

G Somers, L Cao, MH Pinsonneault - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
One-dimensional stellar evolution models have been successful at representing the
structure and evolution of stars in diverse astrophysical contexts, but complications have …

Disk-mediated accretion burst in a high-mass young stellar object

A Caratti o Garatti, B Stecklum, R Garcia Lopez… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Solar-mass stars form via disk-mediated accretion. Recent findings indicate that this process
is probably episodic in the form of accretion bursts, possibly caused by disk fragmentation …

The disk substructures at high angular resolution project (DSHARP). III. Spiral structures in the millimeter continuum of the Elias 27, IM Lup, and WaOph 6 disks

J Huang, SM Andrews, LM Pérez, Z Zhu… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 1.25 mm continuum
observations of spiral structures in three protoplanetary disks from the Disk Substructures at …