3 papers
astro-ph.GA2019
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Measuring Protostar Masses: The Key to Protostellar Evolution
John J. Tobin, Stella Offner, Patrick Sheehan +10
Knowledge of protostellar evolution has been revolutionized with the advent of surveys at near-infrared to submillimeter wavelengths. This has enabled the bolometric luminosities a…
astro-ph.GA2019
Astro2020 Science White Paper: The Formation and Evolution of Multiple Star Systems
John J. Tobin, Marina Kounkel, Stella Offner +13
Significant advances have been made over the past decade in the characterization of multiple protostar systems, enabled by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), high-resolutio…
astro-ph.GA2019
Low Mass Stars as Tracers of Star Formation in Diverse Environments
S. Thomas Megeath, Marina Kounkel, Stella Offner +8
Background: low-mass stars are the dominant product of the star formation process, and they trace star formation over the full range of environments, from isolated globules to clus…