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A breath of fresh air: Oxygen enhancement from silicate sublimation during early protostellar evolution
F. J. Ballieux, M. K. McClure, Ł. Tychoniec +5
Recently, an analog to the t = 0 moment of our Solar System's meteoritic record was identified for the first time around the Class I protostar HOPS-315. Crystalline silicates were…
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…
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…
JOYS: Launch and destruction of dust in protostellar jets. The case of BHR71-IRS1 with JWST MIRI
Łukasz Tychoniec, Logan Francis, Maria Gabriela Navarro +25
Protostellar winds can theoretically lift solids from the planet-forming disks, but direct evidence for launched dust has been scarce so far. Numerous atomic lines that are unique…
JOYS: A JWST/MIRI survey of the evolution of H winds and jets from low-mass protostars
L. Francis, Ł. Tychoniec, E. F. van Dishoeck +20
Protostellar outflows display wide-angle winds and collimated jets, the magnetocentrifugal launching of which enables accretion onto the protostar. The majority of the outflow mass…
PENELLOPE: IX. Lithium, iron and barium elemental abundances in eight nearby young clusters
R. Carini, K. Biazzo, A. Frasca +19
We conducted a homogeneous chemical analysis of pre-main sequence stars with effective temperatures ranging from 3000 K to 5500 K in eight nearby star-forming regions…
Unlocking accretion rate diagnostics for high-mass protostars using JWST/MIRI HI lines
S. D. Reyes-Reyes, H. Beuther, E. F. van Dishoeck +14
While many aspects of high-mass star formation have been investigated, the accretion onto the central protostars is one of the most fundamental but less explored physical propertie…
JOYS: JWST MIRI/MRS spectra of the inner 500 au region of the L1527 IRS bipolar outflow
R. Devaraj, E. F. van Dishoeck, T. P. Ray +12
This study characterized the physical and kinematic properties within the innermost 500 au region of the L1527 bipolar outflow, a class 0/I low-mass protostar using JWST MIRI/MRS s…
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 segregated CO and CO ices in protostellar envelopes
N. G. C. Brunken, A. C. A. Boogert, E. F. van Dishoeck +13
The evolution of interstellar ices can be studied with thermal tracers such as the vibrational modes of CO ice that show great diversity depending on their local chemical and t…
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…
JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). Overview of gaseous molecular emission and absorption in low-mass protostars
M. L. van Gelder, L. Francis, E. F. van Dishoeck +17
The MIRI-MRS instrument onboard JWST allows for probing the molecular gas composition at mid-IR wavelengths at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. It is important to study th…
JOYS+ study of solid state C/C isotope ratios in protostellar envelopes: Observations of CO and CO ice with JWST
N. G. C. Brunken, E. F. van Dishoeck, K. Slavicinska +12
The carbon isotope ratio is a powerful tool for studying the evolution of stellar systems. Recent detections of CO isotopologues in disks and exoplanet atmospheres pointed towards…
Star Formation
Rajika Kuruwita, Łukasz Tychoniec, Christoph Federrath
In this chapter, we will cover how stars form from the stellar nurseries that are giant molecular clouds. We will first review the physical processes that compete to regulate star…
JWST detections of amorphous and crystalline HDO ice toward massive protostars
Katerina Slavicinska, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Łukasz Tychoniec +19
This work aims to utilize the increased sensitivity and resolution of the JWST to quantify the HDO/HO ratio in ices toward young stellar objects (YSOs) and to determine if th…
JWST study of the DG Tau B disk wind candidate: I -- Overview and Nested H/CO outflows
Valentin Delabrosse, Catherine Dougados, Sylvie Cabrit +5
The origin and impact of outflows on proto-planetary disks and planet formation are key open questions. DG Tau B, a Class I protostar with a structured disk and a striking rotating…
JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS): Linked accretion and ejection in a Class I protobinary system
Łukasz Tychoniec, Martijn L. van Gelder, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +19
Accretion and ejection sets the outcome of the star and planet formation process. The mid-infrared wavelength range offers key tracers of those processes that were difficult to det…
JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detection of icy complex organic molecules and ions. I. CH, SO, HCOO, OCN, HCO, HCOOH, CHCHOH, CHCHO, CHOCHO, CHCOOH
W. R. M. Rocha, E. F. van Dishoeck, M. E. Ressler +23
Complex organic molecules (COMs) detected in the gas phase are thought to be mostly formed on icy grains, but no unambiguous detection of icy COMs larger than CH3OH has been report…
JOYS+: mid-infrared detection of gas-phase SO emission in a low-mass protostar. The case of NGC 1333 IRAS2A: hot core or accretion shock?
M. L. van Gelder, M. E. Ressler, E. F. van Dishoeck +18
JWST/MIRI has sharpened our infrared eyes toward the star formation process. This paper presents the first mid-infrared detection of gaseous SO emission in an embedded low-mass…
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…
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…
PENELLOPE V. The magnetospheric structure and the accretion variability of the classical T Tauri star HM Lup
A. Armeni, B. Stelzer, R. A. B. Claes +9
HM Lup is a young M-type star that accretes material from a circumstellar disk through a magnetosphere. Our aim is to study the inner disk structure of HM Lup and to characterize i…
JOYS: Disentangling the warm and cold material in the high-mass IRAS 23385+6053 cluster
C. Gieser, H. Beuther, E. F. van Dishoeck +20
(abridged) We study and compare the warm (>100 K) and cold (<100 K) material toward the high-mass star-forming region IRAS 23385+6053 (IRAS 23385 hereafter) combining high angular…