An Evolutionary Timeline for High-mass Star Formation
Abstract
The details of the physical process through which high-mass stars form remains nearly as much of a mystery now as it was when the Parkes radio telescope commenced operation. The energy output from high-mass stars influence, or directly drive many important processes in the evolution of galaxies and so understanding in detail when and how they form is important for a broad range of fields of astrophysics. Interstellar masers are one of the most readily observed signposts of regions where young high-mass stars have formed. We have recently made great progress towards using the different maser species and transitions to construct a maser-based evolutionary timeline for high-mass star formation. Here we give an overview of this work, highlighting the particular contribution that past and on-going observations with the Parkes 64m radio telescope have made to this area.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.2139,
title = {An Evolutionary Timeline for High-mass Star Formation},
author = {S. P. Ellingsen and S. L. Breen and M. A. Voronkov and J. L. Caswell and X. Chen and A. Titmarsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2139},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Published electronically in Proceedings "Science with Parkes @ 50 Years Young", 2012, Ed. Robert Braun. Conference link is, http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/Parkes50th/ProcPapers/ellingsen.pdf