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We report our current SMA and ALMA studies of disk and planet formation around protostars. We have revealed that $r \gtrsim$100 AU scale disks in Keplerian rotation are ubiquitous around Class I sources. These Class I Keplerian disks are…

We present a deep optical/near-infrared imaging survey of the Serpens molecular cloud. This survey constitutes the complementary optical data to the Spitzer "Core To Disk" (c2d) Legacy survey in this cloud. The survey was conducted using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Spezzi , B. Merin , I. Oliveira , E. F. van Dishoeck , J. M. Brown

We use archived IRAC images from the Spitzer Space Telescope to show that many Class 0 protostars exhibit complex, irregular, and non-axisymmetric structure within their dusty envelopes. Our 8 $\mu$m extinction maps probe some of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 John J. Tobin , Lee Hartmann , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Leslie W. Looney

We present observations with the Submillimeter Array of the continuum emission at $\lambda = 1.3$ mm from 62 young stars surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in the Serpens star-forming region. The typical angular resolution for the survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Charles J. Law , Luca Ricci , Sean M. Andrews , David J. Wilner , Chunhua Qi

We present the full disk-fit results VANDAM survey of all Class 0 and I protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud. We have 18 new protostellar disk candidates around Class 0 and I sources, which are well described by a simple, parametrized…

We report the results of a millimeter interferometric survey of compact 3 mm continuum sources in the inner 5.5'x5.5' region of the Serpens core. We detect 32 discrete sources above 4.0 mJy/beam, 21 of which are new detections at millimeter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Leonardo Testi , Anneila Sargent

We present deep radio continuum observations of the star-forming core of the Serpens South Infrared Dark Cloud with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Observations were conducted in two bands centered at 7.25 GHz (4.14 cm) and 4.75…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Nicholas Kern , Jared Keown , John Tobin , Adrian Mead , Robert Gutermuth

Context. Outflows provide indirect means to get an insight on diverse star formation associated phenomena. On scales of individual protostellar cores, outflows combined with intrinsic core properties can be used to study the mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Dionatos , B. Nisini , C. Codella , T. Giannini

The unprecedented angular resolution and sensitivity of ALMA makes it possible to unveil disk populations in distant ($>$2 kpc), embedded young cluster environments. We have conducted an observation towards the central region of the massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Yu Cheng , Jonathan C. Tan , John J. Tobin , Ruben Fedriani , Morten Andersen , Junfeng Wang

We present observations of three Class 0/I protostars (L1157-mm, CB230 IRS1, and L1165-SMM1) using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and observations of two (L1165-SMM1 and CB230 IRS1) with the Combined Array for Research in…

In this Letter, we report Very Long Baseline Array observations of 22 GHz water masers toward the protostar CARMA-6, located at the center of the Serpens South young cluster. From the astrometric fits to maser spots, we derive a distance of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-24 Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon , Sergio A. Dzib , Laurent Loinard , Yan Gong , Thushara Pillai , Adele Plunkett

We present ALMA 1.3 mm continuum, 12CO, C18O, and SO data for the Class 0 protostars, Lupus 3 MMS, IRAS 15398-3559, and IRAS 16253-2429 at resolutions of ~100 AU. By measuring a rotational profile in C18O, a 100 AU Keplerian disk around a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Hsi-Wei Yen , Patrick M. Koch , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Nagayoshi Ohashi , Yusuke Aso

There is substantial evidence for disk formation taking place during the early stages of star formation and for most stars being born in multiple systems; however, protostellar multiplicity and disk searches have been hampered by low…

We present a Chandra study of the deeply embedded Serpens South star-forming region, examining cluster structure and disk properties at the earliest stages. In total, 152 X-ray sources are detected. Combined with Spitzer and 2MASS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Elaine M. Winston , Scott J. Wolk , Robert Gutermuth , Tyler L. Bourke

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous from large-scale molecular clouds (few parsecs) to small-scale circumstellar envelopes around Class 0 sources (~1000 AU to ~0.1 pc). In particular, recent observations with the Herschel Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Katherine Lee , Leslie Looney , Doug Johnstone , John Tobin

We present a high-resolution ($\sim0.''12$, $\sim16$ au, mean sensitivity of $50~\mu$Jy~beam$^{-1}$ at 225 GHz) snapshot survey of 32 protoplanetary disks around young stars with spectral type earlier than M3 in the Taurus star-forming…

In order to investigate whether massive stars form similarly to their low-mass counterparts, we have used the standard envelope plus disc geometry successfully applied to low-mass protostars to model the near-IR to sub-millimetre SED and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Katharine G. Johnston , Eric Keto , Thomas P. Robitaille , Kenneth Wood

We present results from an ISOCAM survey in the two broad band filters LW2 (5-8.5 mu) and LW3 (12-18 mu) of a 0.13 square degree coverage of the Serpens Main Cloud Core. A total of 392 sources were detected in the 6.7 mu band and 139 in the…

When the planet formation process begins in the disks surrounding young stars is still an open question. Annular substructures such as rings and gaps in disks are intertwined with planet formation, and thus their presence or absence is…

Context: The R CrA cloud hosts a handful of Class 0/I low-mass young stellar objects. The chemistry and physics at scales $>500$ AU in this cloud are dominated by the irradiation from the nearby Herbig Be star R CrA. The luminous…