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We present the results of a comparison between classical and newly identified EXor based on literature data and aimed at recognizing possible differences or similarities of both categories. Optical and near-IR two-color diagrams, modalities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Lorenzetti , S. Antoniucci , T. Giannini , G. Li Causi , P. Ventura , A. A. Arkharov , E. N. Kopatskaya , V. M. Larionov , A. Di Paola , B. Nisini

The accretion-driven outbursts of young FU Orionis-type stars may be a common stage of pre-main sequence evolution and can have a significant impact on the circumstellar environment as it pertains to the growth of solids and eventually…

Optical and infrared surveys have detected increasing numbers of disc accretion outbursts in young stars. Some models of these FU Ori-type events predict that the outburst should start at near- to mid-infrared wavelengths before an optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 August T. Masley , Lee Hartmann

During the pre-main-sequence evolution, Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) assemble most of their mass during the episodic accretion process. The rarely seen FUOr-type events (FUOrs) are valuable laboratories to investigate the outbursting nature…

FU Ori-type stars are young stellar objects (YSOs) experiencing luminosity outbursts by a few orders of magnitude, which last for $\sim$$10^2$ years. A dozen of FUors are known up to date, but many more currently quiescent YSOs could have…

Eruptive stars are a class of young stellar objects that show an abrupt increase in their luminosity. These burst-like episodes are thought to dominate the stellar accretion process during the class 0/class I stage. We present an overview…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 A. Zurlo , P. Weber , S. Pérez , L. Cieza , C. Ginski , R. G. van Holstein , D. Principe , A. Garufi , A. Hales , J. Kastner , E. Rigliaco , G. Ruane , M. Benisty , C. Manara

The standard picture of accretion is a steady flow of matter from the disc onto the young star - a concept which assumes the star-disc system to be completely isolated. However, in a dense cluster environment star-disc systems do interact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pfalzner , J. Tackenberg , M. Steinhausen

FU Orionis (FUOR) outbursts are major optical brightening episodes in low-mass protostars that correspond to rapid mass-accretion events in the innermost region of a protostellar disc. The outbursts are accompanied by strong outflows, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Arieh Königl , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. E. Lovelace

The idea that non steady accretion during the embedded phase of protostar evolution can produce the observed luminosity spread in the Herzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) of young clusters has recently been called into question. Observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Isabelle Baraffe , Eduard Vorobyov , Gilles Chabrier

A star acquires much of its mass by accreting material from a disc. Accretion is probably not continuous but episodic. We have developed a method to include the effects of episodic accretion in simulations of star formation. Episodic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth , David Hubber

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) is driven by several physical mechanisms, which produce a variety of amplitudes and light curve shapes. One of these mechanisms, variable disk accretion is predicted by…

A physical mechanism that drives FU Orionis-type outbursts is reconsidered. We study the effect of inner part of a circumstellar disk covering a region from near the central star to the radius of approximately $5$ AU (hereafter, the inner…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Ohtani , Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe , Eduard I. Vorobyov

Protostellar outflows and jets are almost ubiquitous characteristics during the mass accretion phase, and encode the history of stellar accretion, complex-organic molecule (COM) formation, and planet formation. Episodic jets are likely…

FU Ori type objects (FUors) are decades-long outbursts of accretion onto young stars that are strong enough to viscously heat disks so that the disk outshines the central star. We construct models for FUor objects by calculating emission…

FU Orionis stars (FUors) are young low-mass eruptive stars that are thought to be accreting at high rates. They could give rise to soft X-ray emission from accretion shocks, but their X-ray properties are largely unknown. We report the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. L. Skinner , K. R. Briggs , M. Guedel

FU Orionis objects (FUors) are rapidly-accreting, pre-main sequence objects that are known to exhibit large outbursts at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, with post-eruption, small-scale photometric variability superimposed on…

Protostars grow in mass by accreting material through their discs, and this accretion is initially their main source of luminosity. The resulting radiative feedback heats the environments of young protostars, and may thereby suppress…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony P. Whitworth , David A. Hubber

During their formation phase stars gain most of their mass in violent episodic accretion events, such as observed in FU Orionis (FUor) and EXor stars. V346 Normae is a well-studied FUor that underwent a strong outburst beginning in…

EX Lup is the archetype for the class of young stars that undergoes repeated accretion outbursts of $\sim 5$ mag at optical wavelengths and that last for months. Despite extensive monitoring that dates back 130 years, the accretion history…

The mass accretion process controls pre-main-sequence evolution, although its intrinsic instability has yet to be fully understood, especially towards the protostellar stage. In this work, we have undertaken a thorough examination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 C. Morris , Z. Guo , P. W. Lucas , N. Miller , C. Contreras Peña , M. A. Kuhn