A Parameterized YSO Accretion Disk Model with Increasing Accretion Rate: Predicted Outburst Lightcurves

Gautam Das, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adolfo S. Carvalho

A sub-class among Young Stellar Objects (YSOs), known as FU Ori type stars, undergo sudden rises in luminosity by several orders of magnitude on timescales of a few months to a few…