Protoplanetary disks and their evolution

JP Williams, LA Cieza - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Flattened, rotating disks of cool dust and gas extending for tens to hundreds of astronomical
units are found around almost all low-mass stars shortly after their birth. These disks …

OB Associations and their origins

NJ Wright - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
OB associations are unbound groups of young stars made prominent by their bright OB
members, and have long been thought to be the expanded remnants of dense star clusters …

Cloud–cloud collisions and triggered star formation

Y Fukui, A Habe, T Inoue, R Enokiya… - Publications of the …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Star formation is a fundamental process for galactic evolution. One issue over the last
several decades has been determining whether star formation is induced by external …

ALMA observations of circumstellar disks in the upper scorpius OB association

SA Barenfeld, JM Carpenter, L Ricci… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ALMA observations of 106 G-, K-, and M-type stars in the Upper Scorpius OB
Association hosting circumstellar disks. With these data, we measure the 0.88 mm …

[图书][B] Astrophysics of planet formation

PJ Armitage - 2020 - books.google.com
" The study of planet formation has a long history. The idea that the Solar System formed
from a rotating disk of gas and dust-the Nebula Hypothesis-dates back to the writings of …

The spitzer space telescope survey of the Orion A and B molecular clouds. I. A census of dusty young stellar objects and a study of their mid-infrared variability

ST Megeath, R Gutermuth, J Muzerolle… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a survey of the Orion A and B molecular clouds undertaken with the IRAC and
MIPS instruments on board Spitzer. In total, five distinct fields were mapped, covering 9 deg …

A spitzer survey of young stellar clusters within one kiloparsec of the sun: cluster core extraction and basic structural analysis

RA Gutermuth, ST Megeath, PC Myers… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a uniform mid-infrared imaging and photometric survey of 36 young, nearby, star-
forming clusters and groups using Spitzer IRAC and MIPS. We have confidently identified …

Target selection for the apache point observatory Galactic evolution experiment (APOGEE)

G Zasowski, JA Johnson, PM Frinchaboy… - The Astronomical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a
high-resolution infrared spectroscopic survey spanning all Galactic environments (ie, bulge …

Protoplanetary disk lifetimes vs. stellar mass and possible implications for giant planet populations

Á Ribas, H Bouy, B Merín - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the dependence of protoplanetary disk evolution on stellar mass using a
large sample of young stellar objects in nearby young star-forming regions. Methods. We …

Extended stellar systems in the solar neighborhood-V. Discovery of coronae of nearby star clusters

S Meingast, J Alves, A Rottensteiner - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
We present a novel view on the morphology and dynamical state of ten prominent, nearby
(≤ 500 pc), and young (∼ 30–300 Myr) open star clusters with Gaia DR2: α Per, Blanco 1 …