Rotating disks in high-mass young stellar objects

Preprint

18 December 2003

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0312495

Abstract

We report on the detection of four rotating massive disks in two regions of high-mass star formation. The disks are perpendicular to known bipolar outflows and turn out to be unstable but long lived. We infer that accretion onto the embedded (proto)stars must proceed through the disks with rates of ~10E-2 Msun/yr.

Keywords

STELLAR OBJECTS
ROTATING DISKS
YOUNG STELLAR
MASS YOUNG
ACCRETION
HIGH MASS
BIPOLAR
STARS

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Version 1, 2003-12-18, ArXiv
Published version: The Astrophysical Journal, 601 (2), L187.

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