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 …

Probing inner and outer disk misalignments in transition disks-Constraints from VLTI/GRAVITY and ALMA observations

AJ Bohn, M Benisty, K Perraut, N van Der Marel… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Transition disks are protoplanetary disks with dust-depleted cavities, possibly
indicating substantial clearing of their dust content by a massive companion. For several …

Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852–where's the flux?

TS Boyajian, DM LaCourse… - Monthly notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly
shaped, aperiodic dips in flux of up to∼ 20 per cent. The dipping activity can last for …

A multi-ringed, modestly inclined protoplanetary disk around AA Tau

RA Loomis, KI Öberg, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
AA Tau is the archetype for a class of stars with a peculiar periodic photometric variability
thought to be related to a warped inner disk structure with a nearly edge-on viewing …

The Accretion History of EX Lup: A Century of Bursts, Outbursts, and Quiescence

MT Wang, GJ Herczeg, HG Liu, M Fang… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
EX Lup is the archetype for the class of young stars that undergoes repeated accretion
outbursts of∼ 5 mag at optical wavelengths that last for months. Despite extensive …

Young “dipper” stars in Upper Sco and Oph observed by K2

M Ansdell, E Gaidos, SA Rappaport… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ten young (≲ 10 Myr) late-K and M dwarf stars observed in K2 Campaign 2 that
host protoplanetary disks and exhibit quasi-periodic or aperiodic dimming events. Their …

The Many-faceted Light Curves of Young Disk-bearing Stars in Upper Sco––Oph Observed by K2 Campaign 2

AM Cody, LA Hillenbrand - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The K2 Mission has photometrically monitored thousands of stars at high precision and
cadence in a series of∼ 80-day campaigns focused on sections of the ecliptic plane. During …

A candidate young massive planet in orbit around the classical T Tauri star CI Tau

CM Johns-Krull, JN McLane, L Prato… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The∼ 2 Myr old classical T Tauri star CI Tau shows periodic variability in its radial velocity
(RV) variations measured at infrared (IR) and optical wavelengths. We find that these …

Three-dimensional Simulations of Magnetospheric Accretion in a T Tauri Star: Accretion and Wind Structures Just Around the Star

S Takasao, K Tomida, K Iwasaki… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetospheric
accretion in a T Tauri star to study the accretion and wind structures in the close vicinity of …

Gaia21bty: An EXor light curve exhibiting a FUor spectrum

M Siwak, LA Hillenbrand, Á Kóspál… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gaia21bty, a pre-main-sequence star that previously had shown aperiodic dips in its light
curve, underwent a considerable Δ G≈ 2.9 mag brightening that occurred over a few …