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To investigate the rest-frame optical emission of "Little Red Dots", we model the formation of and evolution of quasi-stars, i.e. stellar envelopes supported by the accretion luminosity onto a central black hole, originating from rapidly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 J. Roman-Garza , D. Schaerer , C. Charbonnel , T. Fragos , E. Cenci , R. Marques-Chaves , P. Oesch , M. Xiao

The surroundings of massive protostars constitute an accretion disc which has numerically been shown to be subject to fragmentation and responsible for luminous accretion-driven outbursts. Moreover, it is suspected to produce close binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. M. -A. Meyer , R. Kuiper , W. Kley , K. G. Johnston , E. Vorobyov

Massive stars influence the surrounding universe far out of proportion to their numbers through ionizing radiation, supernova explosions, and heavy element production. Their formation requires the collapse of massive interstellar gas clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ralf S. Klessen , Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Roberto Galvan-Madrid , Eric R. Keto

We show that massive stars and stellar clusters are formed simultaneously, the global evolution of the forming cluster is what allows the central stars to become massive. We predict that massive star forming clumps, such as those observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rowan J. Smith , Steven Longmore , Ian Bonnell

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

A new theory of quasars is presented in which the matter of thin accretion disks around black holes is supplied by stars that plunge through the disk. Stars in the central part of the host galaxy are randomly perturbed to highly radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jordi Miralda-Escude , Juna A. Kollmeier

Supermassive stars (SMSs) are candidate progenitors of massive black hole seeds and may contribute to anomalous abundance patterns in high-redshift galaxies and globular clusters. Recent radiation-hydrodynamic simulations indicate that SMSs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Devesh Nandal , Sunmyon Chon

We propose that supermassive stars may form in quasar accretion disks, and we discuss possible observational consequences. The structure and stability of very massive stars are reviewed. Because of high accretion rates, quasar disks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeremy Goodman , Jonathan C. Tan

Many disc-type post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars are chemically peculiar, showing underabundances of refractory elements in their photospheres that correlate with condensation temperature. The aim of this paper is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Glenn-Michael Oomen , Hans Van Winckel , Onno Pols , Gijs Nelemans

We study a solid protoplanetary core of 1-10 earth masses migrating through a disk. We suppose the core luminosity is generated as a result of planetesimal accretion and calculate the structure of the gaseous envelope assuming equilibrium.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Papaloizou , C. Terquem

We numerically study the long-term evolution of the accretion disc around the neutron star in a coplanar Be/X-ray binary with a short period and a moderate eccentricity. From three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Hayasaki , Atsuo T. Okazaki

We calculate the evolution of zero-metallicity Population III (Pop III) stars whose mass grows from the initial mass of $\sim 1M_{\odot}$ by accreting the surrounding gases. Our calculations cover a whole evolutionary stages from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-18 Takuya Ohkubo , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Hideyuki Umeda , Naoki Yoshida , Sachiko Tsuruta

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

Simulating one-dimensional stellar evolution models with MESA, we show that removing the outer inflated envelope of a mass-accreting evolved stripped-envelope star, like a Wolf-Rayet (WR) star, substantially moderates the stellar expansion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Yotham Cohen , Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

The origin of supermassive black holes is an open question that has been explored considering gas- and collision-based formation channels to explain the high number of quasars observed in the early Universe. According to numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 P. A. Solar , B. Reinoso , D. R. G. Schleicher , R. S. Klessen , Robi Banerjee

This paper constructs a theoretical framework for calculating the distribution of masses for gas giant planets forming via the core accretion paradigm. Starting with known properties of circumstellar disks, we present models for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Fred C Adams , Michael R Meyer , Arthur D Adams

We investigate the rotational evolution of young stars through Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate 280,000 stars, each of which is assigned a mass, a rotational period, and a mass accretion rate. The mass accretion rate depends on mass and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. J. Vasconcelos , J. Bouvier

The pre-main-sequence evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs is studied numerically starting from the formation of a protostellar/proto-brown dwarf seed and taking into account the mass accretion onto the central object during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Eduard Vorobyov , Vardan Elbakyan , Takashi Hosokawa , Yuya Sakurai , Manuel Guedel , Harold Yorke

I review the status of massive star formation theories: accretion from collapsing, massive, turbulent cores; competitive accretion; and stellar collisions. I conclude the observational and theoretical evidence favors the first of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan C. Tan

(Abridged) Understanding the details of the formation process of massive (i.e. M<8-10M$_\odot$) stars is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. [...] We present a method to derive accurate timescales of the different evolutionary phases…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Sabatini , S. Bovino , A. Giannetti , T. Grassi , J. Brand , E. Schisano , F. Wyrowski , S. Leurini , K. M. Menten