VLA Imaging of the Disk Surrounding the Nearby Young Star TW Hydrae

2000 ◽  
Vol 534 (1) ◽  
pp. L101-L104 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Wilner ◽  
P. T. P. Ho ◽  
J. H. Kastner ◽  
L. F. Rodríguez
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Nature ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gibney
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Nature ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Clarke
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2020 ◽  
Vol 639 ◽  
pp. A80
Author(s):  
Xiao-Na Sun ◽  
Rui-Zhi Yang ◽  
Yun-Feng Liang ◽  
Fang-Kun Peng ◽  
Hai-Ming Zhang ◽  
...  

We report the detection of high-energy γ-ray signal towards the young star-forming region, W40. Using 10-yr Pass 8 data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT), we extracted an extended γ-ray excess region with a significance of ~18σ. The radiation has a spectrum with a photon index of 2.49 ± 0.01. The spatial correlation with the ionized gas content favors the hadronic origin of the γ-ray emission. The total cosmic-ray (CR) proton energy in the γ-ray production region is estimated to be the order of 1047 erg. However, this could be a small fraction of the total energy released in cosmic rays (CRs) by local accelerators, presumably by massive stars, over the lifetime of the system. If so, W40, together with earlier detections of γ-rays from Cygnus cocoon, Westerlund 1, Westerlund 2, NGC 3603, and 30 Dor C, supports the hypothesis that young star clusters are effective CR factories. The unique aspect of this result is that the γ-ray emission is detected, for the first time, from a stellar cluster itself, rather than from the surrounding “cocoons”.


2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. L12-L17
Author(s):  
Christina Schoettler ◽  
Richard J Parker

ABSTRACT Planetary systems appear to form contemporaneously around young stars within young star-forming regions. Within these environments, the chances of survival, as well as the long-term evolution of these systems, are influenced by factors such as dynamical interactions with other stars and photoevaporation from massive stars. These interactions can also cause young stars to be ejected from their birth regions and become runaways. We present examples of such runaway stars in the vicinity of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) found in Gaia DR2 data that have retained their discs during the ejection process. Once set on their path, these runaways usually do not encounter any other dense regions that could endanger the survival of their discs or young planetary systems. However, we show that it is possible for star–disc systems, presumably ejected from one dense star-forming region, to encounter a second dense region, in our case the ONC. While the interactions of the ejected star–disc systems in the second region are unlikely to be the same as in their birth region, a second encounter will increase the risk to the disc or planetary system from malign external effects.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 626-626
Author(s):  
Paul Woods
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1987 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 141-142
Author(s):  
G. M. Rudnitskij

Most sources of B2O maser radio emission at 1.35 cm, associated with star formation regions, show strong variability with, sometimes, rapid bursts of emission (see, e.g., Liljeström 1984, Rowland and Cohen 1986, and references therein). A preliminary conclusion on the possible cyclicity of H2O maser variability can be drawn (Lekht et al. 1982, 1983), with a quasiperiod of several years. The “quiet” state of a maser source, with moderate, slowly varying values of the line flux density, turns to the “active” phase with H2O line bursts (Lekht et al. 1983). The H2O maser generation region is probably located in a rotating gas-and-dust disc (torus) around a protostar (or young star). This is pointed to by VLBI observations showing in some sources maser features arranged in an ellipsoidal structure around a common centre (presumably, the protostellar object - see Downes et al. 1979), as well as by symmetrical character of E2O line profiles of many masers (Lekht et al. 1982). As an excitation mechanism for H2O, collisional pumping in two-temperature medium behind a shock front (with hot heavy particles and cold free electrons or vice versa) is widely accepted (Bolgova et al. 1982, Kylafis and Norman 1986).


2008 ◽  
Vol 385 (2) ◽  
pp. 929-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasilii V. Gvaramadze ◽  
Alessia Gualandris ◽  
Simon Portegies Zwart

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S272) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Evans

AbstractOne of the challenges for stellar astrophysics is to reach the point at which we can undertake reliable spectral synthesis of unresolved populations in young, star-forming galaxies at high redshift. Here I summarise recent studies of massive stars in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds, which span a range of metallicities commensurate with those in high-redshift systems, thus providing an excellent laboratory in which to study the role of environment on stellar evolution. I also give an overview of observations of luminous supergiants in external galaxies out to a remarkable 6.7 Mpc, in which we can exploit our understanding of stellar evolution to study the chemistry and dynamics of the host systems.


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