Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun: Explosive Phenomena from Falling Evaporating Bodies
Abstract
Impacts of falling evaporating bodies (FEBs) with stars and planets at velocities V >~ 10 - 20 km/s will be accompanied, due to aerodynamic effects such as crushing and transversal expansion of the crushed mass, by the FEB's ``explosion'' and the generation of a strong ``blast'' wave, resulting in FEB-generated explosive/flare phenomena. Multiwavelength monitoring of nearby young stars (and exoplanets) with dense protoplanetary disks rich in FEB's is hence of interest for identifying such FEB-related mechanisms possibly underlying their variability.
- Publication:
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Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131500650X
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..314..253I
- Keywords:
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- Young stars;
- falling evaporating bodies;
- FEB-generated explosive/flare phenomena