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astro-ph2008★ 44 cited
Encounter-driven accretion in young stellar clusters - A connection to FUors?
S. Pfalzner
Context: The brightness of FUors increases by several magnitudes within one to several years. The currently favoured explanation for this brightness boost is that of dramatically r…
astro-ph2008★ 29 cited
Encounters in the ONC - observing imprints of star-disc interactions
C. Olczak, S. Pfalzner, A. Eckart
The external destruction of protoplanetary discs in a clustered environment acts mainly due to two mechanisms: gravitational drag by stellar encounters and evaporation by strong st…
astro-ph2008★ 39 cited
Accretion bursts in young stars driven by cluster environment
S. Pfalzner, J. Tackenberg, M. Steinhausen
The standard picture of accretion is a steady flow of matter from the disc onto the young star - a concept which assumes the star-disc system to be completely isolated. However, in…