Infra-red observations of young stars - IV. Radiative mechanisms and interpretations.
Abstract
Recently published multifilter infra-red observations of various categories of young stars are discussed. These data are used to suggest a possible mechanism for the infra-red emission, to derive bolometric magnitudes for young stars, and, by assuming that all these stars are on their radiative tracks in the lIR diagram, to present a model of early stellar evolution. In this model the infall of material from a circumstellar shell surrounding the protostar, and mass loss from the central core, are the principal processes in terms of which the observations are interpreted.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/164.4.395
- Bibcode:
- 1973MNRAS.164..395C