Accretion disks in luminous young stellar objects
Abstract
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 were derived from spatially resolved observations and therefore predominantly obtained with interferometric means, either in the radio/(sub)millimeter or in the optical/infrared wavelength regions. We make summaries and comparisons of the physical properties, kinematics, and dynamics of these circumstellar structures and delineate trends where possible. Amongst others, we report on a quadratic trend of mass accretion rates with mass from T Tauri stars to the highest mass young stellar objects and on the systematic difference in mass infall and accretion rates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.08335,
title = {Accretion disks in luminous young stellar objects},
author = {M. T. Beltran and W. J. de Wit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.08335},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
71 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review