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We present simulation results for the formation and long-term evolution of a primordial protostellar disk harbored by a first star. Using a 2+1D nonaxisymmetric thin disk numerical simulation, together with a barotropic relation for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 A. L. DeSouza , E. I. Vorobyov , S. Basu

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

Solar-mass stars form via circumstellar disk accretion (disk-mediated accretion). Recent findings indicate that this process is likely episodic in the form of accretion bursts, possibly caused by disk fragmentation. Although it cannot be…

We present new numerical simulations in the thin-disk approximation which characterize the burst mode of protostellar accretion. The burst mode begins upon the formation of a centrifugally balanced disk around a newly formed protostar. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

FU Orionis type objects (fuors) are characterized by rapid (tens to hundreds years) episodic outbursts, during which the luminosity increases by orders of magnitude. One of the possible causes of such events is a close encounter between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Aleksandr M. Skliarevskii , Eduard I. Vorobyov

We study the evaporation and condensation of CO and CO_2 during the embedded stages of low-mass star formation by using numerical simulations. We focus on the effect of luminosity bursts, similar in magnitude to FUors and EXors, on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eduard I. Vorobyov , I. Baraffe , T. Harries , G. Chabrier

We have determined the rate of large accretion events in class I and II young stellar objects (YSOs) by comparing the all-sky digitised photographic plate surveys provided by SuperCOSMOS with the latest data release from Gaia (DR2). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 C. Contreras Peña , T. Naylor , S. Morrell

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

According to the magnetospheric accretion scenario, young low-mass stars are surrounded by circumstellar disks which they interact with through accretion of mass. The accretion builds up the star to its final mass and is also believed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 S. Orlando , F. Reale , G. Peres , A. Mignone

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

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

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

The earliest phases of star formation are characterised by intense mass accretion from the circumstellar disk to the central star. One group of young stellar objects, the FU Orionis-type stars exhibit accretion rate peaks accompanied by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-25 O. Fehér , Á. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám , M. R. Hogerheijde , Ch. Brinch , D. Semenov

The burst mode of accretion in massive star formation is a scenario linking the initial gravitational collapse of parent pre-stellar cores to the properties of their gravitationally unstable discs and of their accretion-driven bursts. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 D. M. -A. Meyer , E. I. Vorobyov , V. G. Elbakyan , S. Kraus , S. -Y. Liu , S. Nayakshin , A. M. Sobolev

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

Periodic increases in luminosity arising from variable accretion rates have been predicted for some close pre-main sequence binary stars as they grow from circumbinary disks. The phenomenon is known as "pulsed accretion" and can affect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 James Muzerolle , Elise Furlan , Kevin Flaherty , Zoltan Balog , Robert Gutermuth

Variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) can be caused by various time-dependent phenomena associated with star formation, including accretion rates, geometric changes in the circumstellar disks, stochastic hydromagnetic interactions…

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

This paper describes eruptive phenomena in pre-main sequence stars. The eruptions of FU Orionis stars have much in common with outbursts in other accreting systems, such as dwarf novae and some symbiotic stars. These common features are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott J. Kenyon