Understanding Accretion Outbursts in Massive Protostars through Maser Imaging
Abstract
Two recent extraordinary accretion outbursts in massive protostars, both heralded by maser flares, have impacted our view of star formation. Unraveling the accretion mechanism in such deeply-embedded systems requires larger, more sensitive centimeter wavelength interferometers to image the masing molecular gas simultaneously with the ionized gas.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.09306
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c..13H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1806.06981