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The central problem in forming a star is the angular momentum in the circumstellar disk which prevents material from falling into the central stellar core. An attractive solution to the "angular momentum problem" appears to be the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Chin-Fei Lee , Paul. T. P Ho , Zhi-Yun Li , Naomi Hirano , Qizhou Zhang , Hsien Shang

Outflows and winds launched from young stars play a crucial role in the evolution of protostars and the early stages of planet formation. However, the specific details of the mechanism behind these phenomena, including how they affect the…

A fundamental challenge in star formation is understanding how a protostar accretes mass from its circumstellar disk while removing excess angular momentum. Protostellar jets are widely invoked as the primary channels for angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Somnath Dutta

Jets can facilitate the mass accretion onto the protostars in star formation. They are believed to be launched from accretion disks around the protostars by magneto-centrifugal force, as supported by the detections of rotation and magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Chin-Fei Lee , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang , Naomi Hirano

Protostellar outflows display wide-angle winds and collimated jets, the magnetocentrifugal launching of which enables accretion onto the protostar. The majority of the outflow mass is likely ejected or entrained molecular H$_2$, which can…

We explore the origin of the rotation rates of massive stars. Contrary to their low-mass siblings, most massive stars do not have detectable magnetic fields, so that star-disk interaction models used for the formation of rotating low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 André Oliva , Facundo D. Moyano , Luca Sciarini , Sylvia Ekström , Patrick Eggenberger , Georges Meynet

Highly collimated outflows (jets) are observed across a wide range of astrophysical systems involving the accretion of material onto central objects, from supermassive black holes in active galaxies to proto-brown dwarfs and stellar-mass…

We present near-infrared H2, radio CO, and thermal infrared observations of the nearby massive star-forming region Cepheus A (Cep A). From H2 bow shocks arranged along four distinct jet axes, we infer that the massive protostellar source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nathaniel J. Cunningham , Nickolas Moeckel , John Bally

Rotating outflows from protostellar disks might trace extended magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) disk winds (DWs), providing a solution to the angular momentum problem in disk accretion for star formation. In the jet system HH 212, a rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Chin-Fei Lee , Benoit Tabone , Sylvie Cabrit , Claudio Codella , Linda Podio , Ferreira , J. , Jacquemin-Ide , J

Stretching a length reaching 10 pc projected in the plane of sky, the radio jet associated with Herbig-Haro objects 80 and 81 (HH 80-81) is known as the largest and best collimated protostellar jet in our Galaxy. The nature of the molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Keping Qiu , Friedrich Wyrowski , Karl Menten , Qizhou Zhang , Rolf Guesten

It is important to determine if massive stars form via disc accretion, like their low-mass counterparts. Theory and observation indicate that protostellar jets are a natural consequence of accretion discs and are likely to be crucial for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 R. Fedriani , A. Caratti o Garatti , S. J. D. Purser , A. Sanna , J. C. Tan , R. Garcia-Lopez , T. P. Ray , D. Coffey , B. Stecklum , M. Hoare

Jets and outflows are ubiquitous in the process of formation of stars since outflow is intimately associated with accretion. Free-free (thermal) radio continuum emission is associated with these jets. This emission is relatively weak and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Guillem Anglada , Luis F. Rodriguez , Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez

A protostellar jet and outflow are calculated for \sim 270 yr following the protostar formation using a three dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulation, in which both the protostar and its parent cloud are spatially resolved. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Masahiro N. Machida

Jets and outflows are key components of low-mass star formation, regulating accretion and shaping the surrounding molecular clouds. These flows, traced by molecular species at (sub)millimeter wavelengths (e.g., CO, SiO, SO, H$_2$CO, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Somnath Dutta

Forming massive stars launch outflows of magnetic origin, which in fact serve as a marker for finding sites of massive star formation. However, both the theoretical and observational study of the mechanisms that intervene in the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 André Oliva , Rolf Kuiper

A large body of theoretical and computational work shows that jets - modelled as magnetized disk winds - exert an external torque on their underlying disks that can efficiently remove angular momentum and act as major drivers of disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ralph E. Pudritz , Robi Banerjee

Protostellar jets and winds are probably driven magnetocentrifugally from the surface of accretion disks close to the central stellar objects. The exact launching conditions on the disk, such as the distributions of magnetic flux and mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Roger D. Blandford

We report new VLA and e-MERLIN high resolution and sensitivity images of the Triple Radio continuum Source in the Serpens star forming region. These observations allowed us to perform a deep multi-frequency, multi-epoch study by exploring…

Protostellar jets and outflows are essential ingredients of the star formation process. A better understanding of this phenomenon is important in its own right as well as for many fundamental aspects of star formation. Jets and outflows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Gang Wu , Christian Henkel , Ye Xu , Andreas Brunthaler , Karl M. Menten , Keping Qiu , Jingjing Li , Bo Zhang , Jarken Esimbek

In a comprehensive convergence study, we investigate the computational conditions necessary to resolve disk formation and jet-launching processes, and analyze possible caveats. We explore the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) processes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper
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