scholarly journals Modeling Outflows from Young Stars

2004 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 351-358
Author(s):  
Hsien Shang

We have constructed the foundations to a series of diagnostics methods to probe the jet phenomena in young stars as observed at various optical forbidden lines and radio wavelengths. We calculate and model in a self-consistent manner the physical and radiative processes, which arise within an inner disk-wind driven magnetocentrifugally from the circumstellar accretion disk of a sun-like star. Comparing with real data taken at high angular resolution, our approach will provide the basis of systematic diagnostics for jets and their related young stellar objects, to attest the emission mechanisms of such phenomena. Such approach can help bring first-principle theoretical predictions to confront actual multi-wavelength observations, and will bridge the link between complex numerical simulations and observational data. Analysis methods discussed here are immediately applicable to new high-resolution data obtained with HST, Adaptic Optics, and radio interferometry.

2004 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 611-622
Author(s):  
Hsien Shang

Recent observations have revealed that young stellar objects are associated with jet-like structures and Herbig-Haro objects emitting at wavelengths ranging from optical lines to radio continua. These phenomena are similar in morphologies, and have mostly comparable energetics, dynamics, and kinematics. Probing such phenomena observed at various wavelengths with self-consistent physical and radiative processes arising within an inner disk-wind driven magnetocentrifugally from the circumstellar accretion disk is a challenge for confronting theory and observation of outflows. How such early outflow phase may play a role in forming planetary materials may help solve puzzles posed by meteorites. We will discuss the relevant observations, theoretical foundations for modelling approaches, magnetic structures and dynamical effects, and the connection to the early solar system.


1997 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 391-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Hartmann

Outflows from low-mass young stellar objects are thought to draw upon the energy released by accretion onto T Tauri stars. I briefly summarize the evidence for this accretion and outline present estimates of mass accretion rates. Young stars show a very large range of accretion rates, and this has important implications for both mass ejection and for the structure of stellar magnetospheres which may truncate T Tauri disks.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S237) ◽  
pp. 482-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Urquhart ◽  
A. L. Busfield ◽  
M. G. Hoare ◽  
S. L. Lumsden ◽  
A. J. Clarke ◽  
...  

AbstractThe Red MSX Source (RMS) survey (Hoare et al. 2005) is a multi-wavelength programme of follow-up observations designed to distinguish between genuine massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and other embedded or dusty objects, such as ultra compact (UC) HII regions, evolved stars and planetary nebulae (PNe). We have identified nearly 2000 MYSOs candidates by comparing the colours of MSX and 2MASS point sources to those of known MYSOs. There are several other types of embedded or dust enshrouded objects that have similar colours as MYSOs and contaminate our sample. Two sources of contamination are from UCHII regions and PNe, both of which can be identified from the radio emission emitted by their ionised nebulae. In order to identify UCHII regions and PNe that contaminate our sample we have conducted high resolution radio continuum observations at 3.6 and 6 cm of all southern MYSOs candidates (235° < l < 350°) using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA).


1989 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 215-220
Author(s):  
Anneila I. Sargent ◽  
Steven V. W. Beckwith

There is now a substantial body of evidence that disk-like structures of gas and dust surround many protostars and young stellar objects (e.g. Rodriguez, these proceedings). We are currently studying a number of these disks to establish whether they have properties compatible with those attributed to the proto-solar nebula, in the early stages of evolution of our solar system. The frequency with which such proto-planetary disks are associated with young stars is also being investigated.


2004 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 403-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola D'Alessio ◽  
Nuria Calvet ◽  
Lee Hartmann ◽  
James Muzerolle ◽  
Michael Sitko

We discuss the importance of accretion in calculating disk models for young stellar objects. In particular, we show that a disk inner rim, irradiated by both the star and the accretion shocks at the stellar surface, can naturally explain recent observations of DG Tau with the Keck interferometer. We present models for two objects, with mass accretion rates differing by almost two orders of magnitude, to illustrate the effects of accretion on the overall disk structure and emission.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (S345) ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
O. Fehér ◽  
Á. Kóspál ◽  
P. Ábrahám ◽  
M. R. Hogerheijde ◽  
Ch. Brinch ◽  
...  

AbstractThe earliest phases of star formation are characterised by intense mass accretion from the circumstellar disk to the central star. One group of young stellar objects, the FU Orionis-type stars exhibit accretion rate peaks accompanied by bright eruptions. The occurance of these outbursts might solve the luminosity problem of protostars, play a key role in accumulating the final star mass, and have a significant effect on the parameters of the envelope and the disk. In the framework of the Structured Accretion Disks ERC project, we are conducting a systematic investigation of these sources with millimeter interferometry to examine whether they represent normal young stars in exceptional times or they are unusual objects. Our results show that FU Orionis-type stars can be similar to both Class I and Class II systems and may be in a special evolutionary phase between the two classes with their infall-driven episodic eruptions being the main driving force of the transition.


2001 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris D. Koresko ◽  
Christoph Leinert

Infrared companions are young stellar objects with unusual properties gravitationally bound to more or less typical T Tauri stars. As such they promise to be the source of information on either a particular phase in the development of young stars or on a particular mode of development. We discuss the observed properties of infrared companions as well as attempts to explain their physical status with the aim to see how much of solid conclusion has been obtained so far.


2019 ◽  
Vol 487 (2) ◽  
pp. 1517-1528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Li ◽  
Jarken Esimbek ◽  
Jianjun Zhou ◽  
W A Baan ◽  
Weiguang Ji ◽  
...  

Abstract A multi-wavelength analysis of the large Galactic infrared bubble N 24 is presented in this paper in order to investigate the molecular and star-formation environment around expanding H ii regions. Using archival data from Herschel and ATLASGAL, the distribution and physical properties of the dust over the entire bubble are studied. Using the Clumpfind2d algorithm, 23 dense clumps are identified, with sizes and masses in the range 0.65–1.73 pc and 600–16 300 M⊙, respectively. To analyse the molecular environment in N 24, observations of NH3 (1,1) and (2,2) were carried out using the Nanshan 26-m radio telescope. Analysis of the kinetic temperature and gravitational stability of these clumps suggests gravitational collapse in several of them. The mass–size distributions of the clumps and the presence of massive young protostars indicate that the shell of N 24 is a region of ongoing massive-star formation. The compatibility of the dynamical and fragmentation timescales and the overabundance of young stellar objects and clumps on the rim suggest that the ‘collect-and-collapse’ mechanism is in play at the boundary of the bubble, but the existence of the infrared dark cloud at the edge of bubble indicates that a ‘radiation-driven implosion’ mechanism may also have played a role there.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S243) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Bertout

AbstractAccretion and magnetic fields play major roles in several of the many models put forward to explain the properties of T Tauri stars since their discovery by Alfred Joy in the 1940s. Early investigators already recognized in the 1950s that a source of energy external to the star was needed to account for the emission properties of these stars in the optical range.The opening of new spectral windows from the infrared to the ultraviolet in the 1970s and 1980s showed that the excess emission of T Tauri stars and related objects extends into all wavelength domains, while evidence of outflow and/or infall in their circumstellar medium was accumulating.Although the disk hypothesis had been put forward by Merle Walker as early as 1972 to explain properties of YY Orionis stars and although Lynden-Bell and Pringle worked out the accretion disk model and applied it specifically to T Tauri stars in 1974, the prevailing model for young stellar objects until the mid-1980s assumed that they experienced extreme solar-type activity. It then took until the late 1980s before the indirect evidence of disks presented by several teams of researchers became so compelling that a paradigm shift occurred, leading to the current consensual picture.I briefly review the various models proposed for explaining the properties of young stellar objects, from their discovery to the direct observations of circumstellar disks that have so elegantly confirmed the nature of young stars. I will go on to discuss more modern issues concerning their accretion disk properties and conclude with some results obtained in a recent attempt to better understand the evolution of Taurus-Auriga young stellar objects.


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