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FU Orionis objects are low-mass pre-main sequence stars characterized by dramatic outbursts of several magnitudes in brightness. These outbursts are linked to episodic accretion events in which stars gain a significant portion of their…

The occurrence of new FU Orionis-like objects is fundamental to understand the outburst mechanism in young stars and their role in star formation and disk evolution. Our work is aimed at investigating the properties of the recent outburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Fedele , M. E. van den Ancker , M. G. Petr-Gotzens , P. Rafanelli

Following our recent work devoted to the effect of accretion on the pre-main-sequence evolution of low-mass stars, we perform a detailed analysis of episodic excursions of low-mass protostars in the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Vardan G. Elbakyan , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Christian Rab , D. M. -A. Meyer , Manuel Güdel , Takashi Hosokawa , Harold Yorke

Context. Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) are observed to undergo powerful accretion events known as FU Orionis outbursts (FUors). Such events of episodic accretion are now considered to be common during low mass star formation, wherein the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Kundan Kadam , Eduard Vorobyov , Peter Woitke , Manuel Güdel

The evolution of young stars and planet-forming environments is intrinsically linked to their nascent surroundings. This is particularly evident for FU Orionis (FUor) objects$-$a class of young protostars known for dramatic outbursts…

Context. The most prominent cases of young star variability are accretion outbursts in FU Ori-type systems. The high power of such outbursts causes dramatic changes in the physical and chemical structure of a surrounding protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 S. I. Laznevoi , V. V. Akimkin , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , V. B. Il'in , Á. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám

Long-lasting episodes of high accretion can strongly impact stellar and planetary formation. However, the universality of these events during the formation of young stellar objects (YSOs) is still under debate. Accurate statistics of strong…

In the classical grouping of large magnitude episodic variability of young accreting stars, FUORs outshine their stars by a factor of $\sim$ 100, and can last for up to centuries; EXORs are dimmer, and last months to a year. A disc Hydrogen…

Using analytic arguments and numerical simulations, we examine whether chondrule formation and the FU Orionis phenomenon can be caused by the burst-like onset of gravitational instabilities (GIs) in dead zones. At least two scenarios for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aaron C. Boley , Richard H. Durisen

One of the early hypotheses about the origin of FUOR outbursts explains them by the fall of gas clumps from the remnants of protostellar clouds onto protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars (Hartmann and Kenyon 1985). To calculate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-10 Tatiana V. Demidova , Vladimir P. Grinin

Context. FU Orionis is the archetypal FUor star, a subclass of young stellar object (YSO) that undergo rapid brightening events, often gaining 4-6 magnitudes on timescales of days. This brightening is often associated with a massive…

FU Orionis-type stars form a small class of variable Young Stellar Objects, defined by an optical outburst of 5-6 mag followed by gradual fading on a timescale of decades. Since the phenomenon is connected to the circumstellar medium the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kóspál , P. Ábrahám , Sz. Csizmadia

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

FU Orionis-type objects (FUors) are low-mass young eruptive stars that represent an evolutionary phase characterized by episodic periods of increased accretion rate from the disk to the star. Theory predicts that a circumstellar envelope,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ágnes Kóspál

The chemical influence of luminosity outbursts on the environments of young solar-type stars is explored. Species are categorised into several types according to their response to the outburst. The first and second types imply chemical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Dmitri S. Wiebe , Tamara S. Molyarova , Vitaly V. Akimkin , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Dmitry A. Semenov

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…

We examine whether stellar flyby simulations can initiate FU Orionis outbursts using 3D hydrodynamics simulations coupled to live Monte Carlo radiative transfer. We find that a flyby where the secondary penetrates the circumprimary disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-14 Elisabeth M. A. Borchert , Daniel J. Price , Christophe Pinte , Nicolás Cuello

The Earth is known to be depleted in volatile lithophile elements in a fashion that defies easy explanation. We resolve this anomaly with a model that combines the porosity of collisionally grown dust grains in protoplanetary disks with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Hubbard , Denton S. Ebel

We investigated the possibility of determining the mechanism of the FU Orionis-type outburst based on molecular line observations of protoplanetary disks with synthetic observations of distinct numerical burst models. The morphology of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jinshi Sai , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Alexandr Skliarevskii , Michihiro Takami

Eruptive accretion events are expected to play an important role in the mass buildup stage of individual star formation. FU Ori objects (FUors) experience the most extreme eruptive outbursts, which raise the accretion rate of the disk from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Adolfo S. Carvalho , Lynne A. Hillenbrand