New Stars on the Block

Abstract

Groups of young stars located in the solar neighborhood have recently received a lot of attention. These stars, which are $\lesssim$ 10 million years old, can provide insights into the birth of stars and planetary systems. For example, the TW Hydrae Association is just at the age when planets are believed to form, while MBM12 represents an earlier stage. In this Perspective, I briefly discuss recent research in this field.

4 pages, "Perspective" article in Science, vol. 288, p. 64

References in corpus (5)

• Discovery of seven T Tauri stars and a brown dwarf candidate in the nearby TW Hydrae Association
• A Candidate Substellar Companion to CoD -33 7795 (TWA 5)
• Deep 10 and 18 micron Imaging of the HR 4796A Circumstellar Disk: Transient Dust Particles & Tentative Evidence for a Brightness Asymmetry
• A disk census for the nearest group of young stars: Mid-infrared observations of the TW Hydrae Association
• Mid-infrared imaging of the young binary star Hen 3-600: Evidence for a dust disk around the primary

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