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astro-ph.SR2015★ 16 cited

Absence of Significant Cool Disks in Young Stellar Objects Exhibiting Repetitive Optical Outbursts

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Eduard I. Vorobyov +10

We report Submillimeter Array (SMA) 1.3 mm high angular resolution observations towards the four EXor type outbursting young stellar objects (YSOs) VY Tau, V1118 Ori, V1143 Ori, an…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 53 cited

Two-level hierarchical fragmentation in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 northern filament

P. S. Teixeira, S. Takahashi, L. A. Zapata +1

[Abridged] We have recently reported on the collapse and fragmentation properties of the northernmost part of this structure, located ~2.4pc north of Orion KL -- the Orion Molecula…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 31 cited

Constraints on the circumstellar dust around KIC 8462852

M. A. Thompson, P. Scicluna, F. Kemper +9

We present millimetre (SMA) and sub-millimetre (SCUBA-2) continuum observations of the peculiar star KIC 8462852 which displayed several deep and aperiodic dips in brightness durin…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 8 cited

A Two-Temperature Model of Magnetized Protostellar Outflows

Liang-Yao Wang, Hsien Shang, Ruben Krasnopolsky +1

We explore kinematics and morphologies of molecular outflows driven by young protostars using magnetohydrodynamic simulations in the context of the unified wind model of Shang et a…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 20 cited

X-ray emission from the Wolf-Rayet bubble NGC 6888. II. XMM-Newton EPIC observations

J. A. Toalá, M. A. Guerrero, Y. -H. Chu +3

We present deep XMM-Newton EPIC observations of the Wolf-Rayet (WR) bubble NGC6888 around the star WR136. The complete X-ray mapping of the nebula confirms the distribution of the…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 11 cited

Protostar L1455 IRS1: Rotating Disk Connecting to Filamentary Network

Hsuan-Gu Chou, Hsi-Wei Yen, Patrick M. Koch +1

We conducted IRAM-30m C18O (2-1) and SMA 1.3mm continuum, 12CO (2-1), and C18O (2-1) observations toward the Class 0/I protostar L1455 IRS1 in Perseus. The IRAM results show L1455…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 10 cited

A submillimeter search for pre- and proto-brown dwarfs in Chamaeleon II

I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, D. Barrado, H. Bouy +7

Context. Chamaeleon II molecular cloud is an active star forming region that offers an excellent opportunity for studying the formation of brown dwarfs in the southern hemisphere.…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 35 cited

A Multi-Epoch SMA Study of the HH 211 Protostellar Jet: Jet Motion and Knot Formation

Kai-Syun Jhan, Chin-Fei Lee

HH 211 is a highly collimated jet with a chain of well-defined knots, powered by a nearby young Class 0 protostar. We have used 4 epochs (2004, 2008, 2010, and 2013) of Submillimet…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 8 cited

Next Generation Very Large Array Memo No. 6, Science Working Group 1: The Cradle of Life

Andrea Isella, Charles L. H. Hull, Arielle Moullet +33

This paper discusses compelling science cases for a future long-baseline interferometer operating at millimeter and centimeter wavelengths, like the proposed Next Generation Vary L…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 1 cited

High-resolution CO observation of the carbon star CIT 6 revealing the spiral structure and a nascent bipolar outflow

Hyosun Kim, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Naomi Hirano +8

CIT 6 is a carbon star in the transitional phase from the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) to the protoplanetary nebulae (pPN). Observational evidences of two point sources in the opt…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 75 cited

No Keplerian Disk >10 AU around the Protostar B335: Magnetic Braking or Young Age?

Hsi-Wei Yen, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Patrick M. Koch +4

We have conducted ALMA cycle 2 observations in the 1.3 mm continuum and in the C18O (2-1) and SO (5_6-4_5) lines at a resolution of ~0.3" toward the Class 0 protostar B335. The 1.3…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 72 cited

Magnetic activity and hot Jupiters of young Suns: the weak-line T Tauri stars V819 Tau and V830 Tau

JF Donati, E Hébrard, G Hussain +19

We report results of a spectropolarimetric and photometric monitoring of the weak-line T Tauri stars (wTTSs) V819 Tau and V830 Tau within the MaTYSSE programme, involving the ESPaD…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 127 cited

ALMA Observations of the Transition from Infall Motion to Keplerian Rotation around the Late-phase Protostar TMC-1A

Yusuke Aso, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kazuya Saigo +9

We have observed the Class I protostar TMC-1A with Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in 12CO and C18O (J=2-1), and 1.3-mm dust continuum emission. Continuum emission wi…

astro-ph.SR2015

The Effect of Vertical Temperature Gradient on the Propagation of Three-dimensional Waves in a Protoplanetary Disk

Wing-Kit Lee, Pin-Gao Gu

Excitation and propagation of waves in a thermally stratified disk with an arbitrary vertical temperature profile are studied. Previous analytical studies of three-dimensional wave…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 37 cited

Identification of a Class of Low-Mass Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Struggling to Become Carbon Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

Martha L. Boyer, Iain McDonald, Sundar Srinivasan +4

We have identified a new class of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC/LMC) using optical to infrared photometry, light curves, and opt…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 11 cited

SMA observations of C2H in High-Mass Star Forming Regions

Xue-Jian Jiang, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Qizhou Zhang +5

CH is a representative hydrocarbon that is abundant and ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM). To study its chemical properties, we present Submillimeter Array (SMA) obse…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 10 cited

Chemical Abundances in the PN Wray16-423 in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Constraining the Dust Composition

Masaaki Otsuka

We performed a detailed analysis of elemental abundances, dust features, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the C-rich planetary nebula (PN) Wray16-423 in the Sagittari…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 67 cited

Spitzer Infrared Spectrographic point source classification in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Paul M. E. Ruffle, F. Kemper, O. C. Jones +16

The Magellanic clouds are uniquely placed to study the stellar contribution to dust emission. Individual stars can be resolved in these systems even in the mid-infrared, and they a…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 43 cited

A low-mass protostar's disk-envelope interface: disk-shadowing evidence from ALMA DCO+ observations of VLA1623

Nadia M. Murillo, Simon Bruderer, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +4

Due to instrumental limitations and a lack of disk detections, the structure between the envelope and the rotationally supported disk has been poorly studied. This is now possible…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 72 cited

Detailed structure of the outer disk around HD 169142 with polarized light in H-band

Munetake Momose, Ayaka Morita, Misato Fukagawa +59

Coronagraphic imagery of the circumstellar disk around HD 169142 in H-band polarized intensity (PI) with Subaru/HiCIAO is presented. The emission scattered by dust particles at the…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 91 cited

ALMA resolves the spiraling accretion flow in the luminous OB cluster forming region G33.92+0.11

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra +4

How rapidly collapsing parsec-scale massive molecular clumps feed high-mass stars, and how they fragment to form OB clusters, have been outstanding questions in the field of star-f…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 26 cited

Near-IR High-Resolution Imaging Polarimetry of the SU Aur Disk: Clues for Tidal Tails?

Jerome de Leon, Michihiro Takami, Jennifer L. Karr +53

We present new high-resolution (0\farcs09) -band imaging observations of the circumstellar disk around the T Tauri star SU Aur. Our observations with Subaru-HiCIAO have re…

astro-ph.SR2015

SAGE-Var: An Infrared Survey of Variability in the Magellanic Clouds

D. Riebel, M. L. Boyer, S. Srinivasan +9

We present the first results from the SAGE-Var program, a follow on to the Spitzer legacy program Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE; Meixner, et al. 2006). We obtained…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 1.2k cited

First Results from High Angular Resolution ALMA Observations Toward the HL Tau Region

ALMA Partnership, C. L. Brogan, L. M. Perez +82

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations from the 2014 Long Baseline Campaign in dust continuum and spectral line emission from the HL Tau region…