A Keplerian disk with a four-arm spiral birthing an episodically accreting high-mass protostar

R. A. Burns, Y. Uno, N. Sakai +34

High-mass protostars (M${}_{\star }>$ 8 M${}_{\odot }$) are thought to gain the majority of their mass via short, intense bursts of growth. This episodic accretion is thought to be faci…