Rotating disks in high-mass young stellar objects
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312495,
title = {Rotating disks in high-mass young stellar objects},
author = {Maria T. Beltran and Riccardo Cesaroni and Roberto Neri and Claudio Codella and Ray S. Furuya and Leonardo Testi and Luca Olmi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312495},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication by ApJL