Ultra-compact HII regions and massive star formation

E Churchwell - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review discusses three main topics: evolution to the ultra-compact (UC) state;
the properties of UC HII regions and their environments; and UC HII regions as probes of …

Accretion disks in luminous young stellar objects

MT Beltrán, WJ de Wit - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2016 - Springer
An observational review is provided of the properties of accretion disks around young stars.
It concerns the primordial disks of intermediate-and high-mass young stellar objects in …

Variations in the Galactic star formation rate and density thresholds for star formation

SN Longmore, J Bally, L Testi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The conversion of gas into stars is a fundamental process in astrophysics and cosmology.
Stars are known to form from the gravitational collapse of dense clumps in interstellar …

Complex organic molecules in protoplanetary disks

C Walsh, TJ Millar, H Nomura, E Herbst… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. Protoplanetary disks are vital objects in star and planet formation, possessing all
the material, gas and dust, which may form a planetary system orbiting the new star. Small …

Massive stars: their environment and formation

G Garay, S Lizano - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Cloud environment is thought to play a critical role in determining the mechanism of
formation of massive stars. In this contribution we review the physical characteristics of the …

A class I and class II CH3OH maser survey of EGOs from the GLIMPSE survey

CJ Cyganowski, CL Brogan, TR Hunter… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a high angular resolution Very Large Array (VLA) Class I 44 GHz
and Class II 6.7 GHz CH 3 OH maser survey of a sample of∼ 20 massive young stellar …

A general catalogue of 6.7-ghz methanol masers-i. data

MR Pestalozzi, V Minier, RS Booth - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2005 - aanda.org
Methanol masers are often detected in regions of intense star formation. Several studies in
the last decade indicate that they may even be the earliest signpost of a high-mass star …

The formation of massive stars

H Beuther, EB Churchwell, CF McKee… - arXiv preprint astro-ph …, 2006 - arxiv.org
Massive stars have a profound influence on the Universe, but their formation remains poorly
understood. We review the current status of observational and theoretical research in this …

Vlbi observations of 6.7 and 12.2 ghz methanol masers toward high mass star-forming regions. i. observational results: protostellar disks or outflows?

V Minier, RS Booth, JE Conway - … , v. 362, p. 1093-1108 (2000), 2000 - adsabs.harvard.edu
We present VLBI observations of 6.7 and 12.2 GHz methanol masers in 14 star-forming
regions, namely NGC 7538, S 252, W 75N, W 48, G 31.28+ 0.06, S 231, S 255, S 269, Mon …

CH3OH and H2O masers in high-mass star-forming regions

H Beuther, A Walsh, P Schilke, TK Sridharan… - Astronomy & …, 2002 - aanda.org
We present a comparison of Class ii CH 3 OH (6.7 GHz) and H 2 O (22.2 GHz) masers at
high spatial resolution in a sample of 29 massive star-forming regions. Absolute positions of …