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Outbursts of young stellar objects occur when the mass accretion rate suddenly increases. However, such outbursts are difficult to detect for deeply embedded protostars due to their thick envelope and the rarity of outbursts. The near-IR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Sung-Yong Yoon , Jeong-Eun Lee , Seokho Lee , Gregory J. Herczeg , Sunkyung Park , Gregory N. Mace , Jae-Joon Lee , Daniel T. Jaffe

Multispectral studies of nearby, forming stars provide insights into all classes of accreting systems. Objects which have magnetic fields, spin, and accrete produce jets and collimated outflows. Jets are seen in systems ranging from brown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 John Bally

We study the temporal and spatial distribution of star formation rates in four well-studied star-forming regions in local molecular clouds(MCs): Taurus, Perseus, $\rho$ Ophiuchi, and Orion A. Using published mass and age estimates for young…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Spencer Caldwell , Philip Chang

We present a detailed analysis of the long-term photometric and spectroscopic evolution of V1180 Cas over a decade, aiming to identify the dominant mechanisms behind its variability. We combine multi-band light curves from 1999 to 2025 with…

Giant Eruptions (GEs) are episodic high-rate mass loss events that massive stars experience in the late stage of evolutions before exploding as a core-collapse supernova. If it occurs in a binary system, the companion star can accrete part…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Bhawna Mukhija , Amit Kashi

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered class of highly variable X-ray bursts originating in galactic nuclei. These high-amplitude bursts exhibit periodicity ranging from tens of minutes to several days. QPEs are also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Martin Mondek , Michal Zajaček , Henry Best , Taj Jankovič , Vladimír Karas , Petr Kurfürst

We study protoplanetary disc evolution assuming that angular momentum transport is driven by gravitational instability at large radii, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the hot inner regions. At radii of the order of 1 AU such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philip J. Armitage , Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle

We present near-infrared spectroscopic diagnostics that can be used to identify FU Orionis stars (FUOrs). FUOrs are young stellar objects (YSOs) that are currently in a state of extreme outburst, caused by enhanced mass {inflow} from their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Evan R. Portnoi , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Adolfo S. Carvalho

We present new high resolution (R=18,000) near-infrared spectroscopic observations of a sample of classical FU Orionis stars (FUors) and other young stars with FUor characteristics that are sources of Herbig-Haro flows. Spectra are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tom Greene , Colin Aspin , Bo Reipurth

This work is the first attempt to describe the multi-dimensional structure of accreting young stars based on fully compressible time implicit multi-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations. One major motivation is to analyse the validity of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 C. Geroux , I. Baraffe , M. Viallet , T. Goffrey , J. Pratt , T. Constantino , D. Folini , M. V. Popov , R. Walder

FU Ori outbursts are thought to play a key role in stellar mass assembly and in the chemistry of protoplanetary disks during the early formation of stars. However, uncertainties remain regarding the universality of these events and the…

High-mass young stellar objects exhibit episodic accretion bursts similar to their low-mass counterparts. Understanding these outbursts is crucial for elucidating massive star formation and disk evolution around high-mass protostars. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Vardan Elbakyan , Dennis Wehner , Rolf Kuiper , Sergei Nayakshin , Alessio Caratti o Garatti , Zhen Guo

This work presents a study of the evolution of the stellar accretion rates of pre-main-sequence intermediate-mass stars. We compare the accretion rate of the younger intermediate-mass T Tauri stars (IMTTSs) with the older Herbig stars into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Sean D. Brittain , Joshua W. Kern , Gwendolyn Meeus , Rene D. Oudmaijer

Jets from young stars represent one of the most striking signposts of star formation. The phenomenon has been researched for over two decades and there is now general agreement that such jets are generated as a by-product of accretion; most…

An observational review is provided of the properties of accretion disks around young stars. It concerns the primordial disks of intermediate- and high-mass young stellar objects in embedded and optically revealed phases. The properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 M. T. Beltran , W. J. de Wit

Young stellar objects (YSOs) accrete up to half of their material in short periods of enhanced mass accretion. For massive YSOs (MYSOs with more than 8 solar masses), accretion outbursts are of special importance, as they serve as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-28 Verena Wolf

We perform global time-dependent simulations of an accretion disc around a young stellar object with a dead zone (a region where the magneto-rotational instability cannot drive turbulence because the material is not sufficiently ionised).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle

Historically, FU Orionis-type stars are low-mass, pre-main sequence stars. The members of this class experience powerful accretion outbursts and remain in an enhanced accretion state for decades or centuries. V1515 Cyg, a classical FUor,…

We announce a recently detected outburst that is currently only a few months old, and probably of FU Orionis type. The progenitor to the outburst was an emission-line, flat-spectrum SED young stellar object located in the W5 region, though…

Recent theoretical work has shown that the pre-main-sequence (PMS) evolution of stars is much more complex than previously envisioned. Instead of the traditional steady, one-dimensional solution, accretion may be episodic and not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Masanobu Kunitomo , Tristan Guillot , Taku Takeuchi , Shigeru Ida