Disks around FUor-type young eruptive stars with ALMA
Abstract
A long-standing problem of the general paradigm of low-mass star formation is the "luminosity problem": protostars are less luminous than theoretically predicted. One possible solution is that the accretion process is episodic. FU Orionis-type stars (FUors) are thought to be the visible examples for objects in the high accretion state and it is still debated what physical mechanism triggers the phenomenon. For many of these objects their disk properties are still largely unknown so we conducted a deep, high spatial resolution (down to 20 au) ALMA Band 6 (1.3 mm) dust continuum survey of a sub-sample of known FUors. Here we present preliminary results of our survey, including the mass, size and spectral slope of each disk.
- Publication:
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Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319002242
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUS..345..369C
- Keywords:
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- stars: pre-main-sequence;
- stars: circumstellar matter;
- techniques: interferometric