5 papers
Direct evidence for magnetohydrodynamic disk winds driving rotating outflows in protostar HOPS 358
Chul-Hwan Kim, Jeong-Eun Lee, Doug Johnstone +4
Angular momentum removal is a fundamental requirement for star and planet formation, yet the mechanisms driving this process remain debated. Magnetohydrodynamic disk winds, launche…
Accretion onto the Embedded Protostar L1527 IRS: Insights from JWST NIRSpec and MIRI Observations
W. Blake Drechsler, John J. Tobin, Patrick D. Sheehan +12
Accretion is the primary driver of protostellar evolution, regulating mass assembly and shaping the physical and chemical environments of young stellar objects. Quantifying accreti…
Dynamical Masses for 23 Pre-Main Sequence Stars in Upper Scorpius: A Critical Test of Stellar Evolutionary Models
A. P. M. Towner, J. A. Eisner, P. D. Sheehan +2
We present dynamical masses for 23 pre-main sequence K- and M-type stars in the Upper Scorpius star-forming region. These masses were derived from the Keplerian rotation of CO disk…
L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows
Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li +11
Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust…
Sub-Millimeter Variability in the Envelope & Warped Protostellar Disk of the Class 0 Protostar HOPS 358
Patrick D. Sheehan, Doug Johnstone, Carlos Contreras Peña +7
The JCMT Transient Survey recently discovered that the Class 0 protostar HOPS 358 decreased in 350 GHz continuum brightness by % over the course of four years before bright…