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We report signatures of episodic accretion in young stellar objects (YSOs) that emerge in protobinary configurations in a gravoturbulent gas collapse. We find in most of these protobinary systems strong accretion bursts between the two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Rafeel Riaz , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Siegfried Vanaverbeke , Ralf S. Klessen

Studying accretion-driven episodic outbursts in YSOs is key to understanding the later stages of star and planet formation. FU Orionis-type objects form a YSO subclass, distinguished by rapid, multi-magnitude increases in brightness at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Zs. M. Szabó , A. Belloche , K. M. Menten , Y. Gong , Á. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám , W. Yang , C. J. Cyganowski , F. Wyrowski

Young stellar systems are known to undergo outbursts, where the star experiences an increased accretion rate, and the system's luminosity increases accordingly. The archetype is the FU Orionis (FU Ori) outburst, where the accretion rate can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

FU Orionis-type stars are young stellar objects showing large outbursts due to highly enhanced accretion from the circumstellar disk onto the protostar. FUor-type outbursts happen in a wide variety of sources from the very embedded ones to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Á. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám , A. Carmona , L. Chen , J. D. Green , R. van Boekel , J. A. White

We argue that the outbursts of the FU Orionis stars occur on timescales which are much longer than expected from the standard disc instability model with \alpha_{c} \gtrsim 10^{-3}. The outburst, recurrence, and rise times are consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. M. Matthews , R. Speith , G. A. Wynn

Episodic accretion-driven outbursts are an extreme manifestation of accretion variability. It has been proposed that the development of gravitational instabilities in the proto-circumstellar medium of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Meyer D. M. -A. , Vorobyov E. I. , Elbakyan V. G. , Stecklum B. , Eislöffel J. , Sobolev A. M.

Accretion in young stellar objects (YSOs) is at least partially episodic, i.e. periods with high accretion rates ('bursts') are interspersed by quiescent phases. These bursts manifest themselves as eruptive variability. Here we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Aleks Scholz , Dirk Froebrich , Kenneth Wood

Episodic mass accretion is the dominant mechanism for mass assembly in the proto-stellar phase. Although prior optical time-domain searches have allowed detailed studies of individual outbursts, these searches remain insensitive to the…

Young stellar objects in their pre-main sequence phase are characterized by irregular changes in brightness, generally attributed to an increase of the mass accretion rate due to various kind of instabilities occurring in the circumstellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 F. Strafella , G. Altavilla , T. Giannini , A. Giunta , D. Lorenzetti , A. Nucita , A. Franco

FUor outbursts in young stellar objects (YSOs) are the most dramatic events among episodic accretion phenomena. The origin of these bursts is not clear: disk instabilities and/or disk perturbations by an external body being the most viable…

Low-mass stars build a significant fraction of their total mass during short outbursts of enhanced accretion known as FUor and EXor outbursts. FUor objects are characterized by a sudden brightening of ~5 magnitudes at visible wavelengths…

Young stellar objects (YSOs) may undergo periods of active accretion (outbursts), during which the protostellar accretion rate is temporarily enhanced by a few orders of magnitude. Whether or not these accretion outburst YSOs possess…

We present 29 likely members of the young $\rho$ Oph or Upper Sco regions of recent star formation that exhibit "accretion burst" type light curves in $K2$ time series photometry. The bursters were identified by visual examination of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Ann Marie Cody , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Trevor J. David , John M. Carpenter , Mark E. Everett , Steve B. Howell

While accreting through a circumstellar disk, young stellar objects are observed to undergo sudden and powerful accretion events known as FUor or EXor outbursts. Although such episodic accretion is considered to be an integral part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Kundan Kadam , Eduard Vorobyov , Zsolt Regály , Ágnes Kóspál , Péter Ábrahám

A sub-class among Young Stellar Objects (YSOs), known as FU Ori type stars, undergo sudden rises in luminosity by several orders of magnitude on timescales of a few months to a few years, and decay back to quiescence on timescales of a few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Gautam Das , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Adolfo S. Carvalho

FU Orionis-type objects (FUors) are low-mass young eruptive stars that represent an evolutionary phase characterized by episodic periods of increased accretion rate from the disk to the star. Theory predicts that a circumstellar envelope,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ágnes Kóspál

Among the low-mass pre-main sequence stars, a small group called FU Orionis-type objects (FUors) are notable for undergoing powerful accretion outbursts. V1057 Cyg, a classical example of an FUor, went into outburst around 1969-1970, after…

Outbursts due to dramatic increases in the mass accretion rate are the most extreme type of variability in young stellar objects. We searched for outbursts among 319 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds by comparing 3.6, 4.5, and 24…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 William J. Fischer , Emily Safron , S. Thomas Megeath

Some accreting neutron stars and young stars show unexplained episodic flares in the form of quasi-periodic oscillations or recurrent outbursts. In a series of two papers we present new work on an instability that can lead to episodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Caroline R. D'Angelo , Hendrik C. Spruit

Context. Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) are observed to undergo powerful accretion events known as FU Orionis outbursts (FUors). Such events of episodic accretion are now considered to be common during low mass star formation, wherein the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Kundan Kadam , Eduard Vorobyov , Peter Woitke , Manuel Güdel