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most citedMass measurements in protoplanetary disks from hydrogen deuteride

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astro-ph.SR2026

Mapping of interstellar ices with JWST in protostellar envelopes: Spatial variations of CO, CO, CO, OCN and HO ice

N. G. C. Brunken, E. F. van Dishoeck, A. C. A. Boogert +16

The composition of planets and their atmospheres is largely determined by the formation environment of the planet. This environment is pre-determined during early stages when the p…

astro-ph.SR2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

HETDEX Public Data Release 1: Source Catalog 2 and Data Cubes from ~90 sq deg of Integral-Field Optical Spectroscopy

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +36

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is a wide-field, integral-field spectroscopic survey designed to map the large-scale distribution of Lyman-alpha emitting…

astro-ph.SR2026

CORINOS V: Radiative transfer effects in protostellar ice observations

Will E. Thompson, Jennifer B. Bergner, Neal J. Evans +11

Recent observations of protostars with the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unprecedented chemical complexity from their ice absorption features. However, these spectra are…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

CORINOS IV: Quantifying Baseline-Fitting Uncertainties in SO Ice Measurements with JWST/MIRI

Rachel E. Gross, Yao-Lun Yang, L. Ilsedore Cleeves +15

Sulfur dioxide (SO) ice has been tentatively detected in protostellar envelopes, but its reliability as a solid-state sulfur reservoir remains unclear. We present new measureme…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Colors of Ices: Measuring ice column density through photometry

Adam Ginsburg, Savannah R. Gramze, Matthew L. N. Ashby +8

Ices imprint strong absorption features in the near- and mid-infrared, but until recently they have been studied almost exclusively with spectroscopy toward small samples of bright…

astro-ph.SR2024

JWST-IPA: Chemical Inventory and Spatial Mapping of Ices in the Protostar HOPS370 -- Evidence for an Opacity Hole and Thermal Processing of Ices

Himanshu Tyagi, Manoj P., Mayank Narang +35

The composition of protoplanetary disks, and hence the initial conditions of planet formation, may be strongly influenced by the infall and thermal processing of material during th…

astro-ph.SR2024

A Natural Laboratory for Astrochemistry, a Variable Protostar B335

Jeong-Eun Lee, Neal J. Evans, Giseon Baek +3

Emission lines from complex organic molecules in B335 were observed in four epochs, spanning a luminosity burst of about 10 years duration. The emission lines increased dramaticall…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

ALMASOP. The Localized and Chemically rich Features near the Bases of the Protostellar Jet in HOPS 87

Shih-Ying Hsu, Chin-Fei Lee, Sheng-Yuan Liu +24

HOPS 87 is a Class 0 protostellar core known to harbor an extremely young bipolar outflow and a hot corino. We report the discovery of localized, chemically rich regions near the b…

astro-ph.SR2024

CORINOS II. JWST-MIRI detection of warm molecular gas from an embedded, disk-bearing protostar

Colette Salyk, Yao-Lun Yang, Klaus M. Pontoppidan +8

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) observations of warm CO and HO gas in emission toward the low-mass protostar IRAS 15398-3359, observ…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST/MIRI detection of suprathermal OH rotational emissions: probing the dissociation of the water by Lyman alpha photons near the protostar HOPS 370

David A. Neufeld, P. Manoj, Himanshu Tyagi +22

Using the MIRI/MRS spectrometer on JWST, we have detected pure rotational, suprathermal OH emissions from the vicinity of the intermediate-mass protostar HOPS 370 (OMC2/FIR3). Thes…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 37 cited

JWST observations of CO ice: Tracing the chemical environment and thermal history of ices in protostellar envelopes

Nashanty G. C. Brunken, Will R. M. Rocha, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +38

The structure and composition of simple ices can be modified during stellar evolution by protostellar heating. Key to understanding the involved processes are thermal and chemical…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 43 cited

Hunt for complex cyanides in protostellar ices with JWST: Tentative detection of CHCN and CHCN

P. Nazari, W. R. M. Rocha, A. E. Rubinstein +20

Nitrogen-bearing complex organic molecules have been commonly detected in the gas phase but not yet in interstellar ices. This has led to the long-standing question of whether thes…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

IPA: Class 0 Protostars Viewed in CO Emission Using JWST

Adam E. Rubinstein, Neal J. Evans, Himanshu Tyagi +24

We investigate the bright CO fundamental emission in the central regions of five protostars in their primary mass assembly phase using new observations from JWST's Near-Infrared Sp…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Discovery of a collimated jet from the low luminosity protostar IRAS 162532429 in a quiescent accretion phase with the JWST

Mayank Narang, Manoj P., Himanshu Tyagi +36

Investigating Protostellar Accretion (IPA) is a JWST Cycle~1 GO program that uses NIRSpec IFU and MIRI MRS to obtain 2.9--28~m spectral cubes of young, deeply embedded protostar…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 53 cited

Investigating Protostellar Accretion-Driven Outflows Across the Mass Spectrum: JWST NIRSpec IFU 3-5~m Spectral Mapping of Five Young Protostars

Samuel Federman, S. Thomas Megeath, Adam E. Rubinstein +35

Investigating Protostellar Accretion is a Cycle 1 JWST program using the NIRSpec+MIRI integral field units to obtain 2.9--28 m spectral cubes of five young protostars with lumin…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 112 cited

CORINOS I: JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy and Imaging of a Class 0 protostar IRAS 15398-3359

Yao-Lun Yang, Joel D. Green, Klaus M. Pontoppidan +13

The origin of complex organic molecules (COMs) in young Class 0 protostars has been one of the major questions in astrochemistry and star formation. While COMs are thought to form…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 84 cited

Outflows, infall and evolution of a sample of embedded low-mass protostars. The William Herschel Line Legacy (WILL) survey

J. C. Mottram, E. F. van Dishoeck, L. E. Kristensen +22

[Abridged] We present spectroscopic observations in HO, CO and related species with \textit{Herschel} HIFI and PACS, as well as ground-based follow-up with the JCMT and APEX…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 28 cited

The Class 0 Protostar BHR71: Herschel Observations and Dust Continuum Models

Yao-Lun Yang, Neal J. Evans, Joel D. Green +2

We use Herschel spectrophotometry of BHR71, an embedded Class 0 protostar, to provide new constraints on its physical properties. We detect 645 (non-unique) spectral lines amongst…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

The Mid-Infrared Evolution of the FU Orionis Disk

Joel D. Green, Olivia C. Jones, Luke D. Keller +6

We present new SOFIA-FORCAST observations obtained in Feburary 2016 of the archetypal outbursting low mass young stellar object FU Orionis, and compare the continuum, solid state,…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 186 cited

Mass measurements in protoplanetary disks from hydrogen deuteride

Melissa McClure, Ted Bergin, Ilse Cleeves +8

The total gas mass of a protoplanetary disk is a fundamental, but poorly determined, quantity. A new technique \citep{bergin+13} has been demonstrated to assess directly the bulk m…

astro-ph.GA2016

The evolution of far-infrared CO emission from protostars

P. Manoj, J. D. Green, S. T. Megeath +7

We investigate the evolution of far-IR CO emission from protostars observed with Herschel/PACS for 50 sources from the combined sample of HOPS and DIGIT Herschel key programs. From…