8 papers
IPA: Morphology and Kinematics of Molecular Hydrogen Winds in Five Young Protostars across the Mass Spectrum Observed with JWST
Himanshu Tyagi, P. Manoj, Mayank Narang +29
Molecular winds may play a key role in governing angular momentum transport and accretion during the early evolution of protostars. We present the morphology and kinematic properti…
JWST Edge-on Disk Ice (JEDIce): Vibrationally hot, rotationally cold H in the outer disk of Oph 163131 non-thermally excited by UV and cosmic rays
Korash Assani, Zhi-Yun Li, Jennifer B. Bergner +19
Constraining ionization and excitation processes in protoplanetary disks is essential for understanding the chemical structure and evolution of disk material, shaping planet format…
Excitation of warm HD and H and implications for the interstellar deuterium abundance
David A. Neufeld
Rotational emission from HD provides a direct probe of deuterium in warm molecular gas, but the conversion of HD line fluxes to total column densities is sensitive to non-LTE excit…
Investigating the Nested Structure of the Outflow from the Low Luminosity Protostar IRAS 16253-2429 using JWST and ALMA
Mayank Narang, Himanshu Tyagi, Nagayoshi Ohashi +37
Understanding the earliest stage of star and planet formation requires detailed observations to address the connection and interplay between the accretion, outflow and disk evoluti…
IPA. Accretion rate of a low-mass Class 0 protostar, measured via mid-infrared fluorescent OH emission
Dan M. Watson, Mayank Narang, Caeley V. Pittman +41
The earliest stages of star formation are highlighted by complex interactions between accretion, outflow, and radiative processes, which shape the chemical and physical environment…
JWST observations of cosmic-ray-excited H in Barnard 68: spatial variations and constraints on cosmic-ray attenuation
David A. Neufeld, Kedron Silsbee, Alexei V. Ivlev +9
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec observations of the starless dark cloud Barnard 68 that reveal the spatially-resolved signature of cosmic-ray excited molecular…