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most citedPlacing the spotted T Tauri star LkCa 4 on an HR diagram

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMASOP. A Rotating Feature Rich in Complex Organic Molecules in a Protostellar Core

Shih-Ying Hsu, Chin-Fei Lee, Doug Johnstone +25

Interstellar complex organic molecules (COMs) in solar-like young stellar objects (YSOs), particularly within protostellar disks, are of significant interest due to their potential…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Spectroastrometric Study of the Low-velocity Wind from DG Tau A

Yu-Ru Chou, Michihiro Takami, Shin-Ping Lai +9

We obtained high spectral resolution spectra ( 2.5 km s) for DG Tau A from 4800 Å to 7500 Å using Subaru High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) for the first time. Th…

astro-ph.SR2024

Multiple Components of the Outflow in the Protostellar System HH 212: Outer Outflow Shell, Rotating Wind, Shocked Wind, and Jet

J. A. López-Vázquez, Chin-Fei Lee, Hsien Shang +8

We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 7 observations of the CO (J=3-2) line emission of the protostellar system HH 212 at 24 au spatial resolution…

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

A Unified Model for Bipolar Outflows from Young Stars: Kinematic and Mixing Structures in HH 30

Tsung-Han Ai, Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang +2

The young stellar source HH 30 is a textbook example of an ionic optical jet originating from a disk in an edge-on system shown by the HST. It has a remnant envelope in CO o…

astro-ph.GA2023

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): The Warm-Envelope Origin of Hot Corinos

Shih-Ying Hsu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Doug Johnstone +24

Hot corinos are of great interest due to their richness in interstellar complex organic molecules (COMs) and the consequent potential prebiotic connection to solar-like planetary s…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 9 cited

A Unified Model for Bipolar Outflows from Young Stars: Apparent Magnetic Jet Acceleration

Hsien Shang, Ruben Krasnopolsky, Chun-Fan Liu

We explore a new, efficient mechanism that can power toroidally magnetized jets up to two to three times their original terminal velocity after they enter a self-similar phase of m…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 33 cited

A Unified Model for Bipolar Outflows from Young Stars: Kinematic Signatures of Jets, Winds, and Their Magnetic Interplay with the Ambient Toroids

Hsien Shang, Chun-Fan Liu, Ruben Krasnopolsky +1

Kinematic signatures of the jet, winds, multicavities, and episodic shells arising in the unified model of bipolar outflows developed in Shang et al.\ (2020), in which an outflow f…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 15 cited

Time-Variable Jet Ejections from RW Aur A, RY Tau and DG Tau

Michihiro Takami, Hans Moritz Guenther, P. Christian Schneider +17

We present Gemini-NIFS, VLT-SINFONI and Keck-OSIRIS observations of near-infrared [Fe II] emission associated with the well-studied jets from three active T Tauri stars; RW Aur A,…

astro-ph.GA2022

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): Deriving Inclination Angle and Velocity of the Protostellar Jets from their SiO Knots

Kai-Syun Jhan, Chin-Fei Lee, Doug Johnstone +23

We have selected six sources (G209.55-19.68S2, G205.46-14.56S1A, G203.21-11.20W2, G191.90-11.21S, G205.46-14.56S3, and G206.93-16.61W2) from the Atacama Large Millimeter/subm…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 39 cited

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): A Hot Corino Survey toward Protostellar Cores in the Orion Cloud

Shih-Ying Hsu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Tie Liu +25

The presence of complex organic molecules (COMs) in the interstellar medium (ISM) is of great interest since it may link to the origin and prevalence of life in the universe. Aimin…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Detection of a dense SiO jet in the evolved protostellar phase

Somnath Dutta, Chin-Fei Lee, Doug Johnstone +25

Jets and outflows trace the accretion history of protostars. High-velocity molecular jets have been observed from several protostars in the early Class\,0 phase of star formation,…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

Revealing Ionization Conditions of Sz 102 with Spatially Resolved [Ne III] Microjets

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang, Gregory J. Herczeg +1

Forbidden neon emission lines from small-scale microjets can probe high-energy processes in low-mass young stellar systems. We obtained spatially resolved [Ne III] spectra of the m…

astro-ph.SR2020

Possible Time Correlation Between Jet Ejection and Mass Accretion for RW Aur A

Michihiro Takami, Tracy L. Beck, P. Christian Schneider +17

For the active T-Taur star RW Aur A we have performed long-term (~10 yr) monitoring observations of (1) jet imaging in the [Fe II] 1.644-micron emission line using Gemini-NIFS and…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 138 cited

Placing the spotted T Tauri star LkCa 4 on an HR diagram

Michael A. Gully-Santiago, Gregory J. Herczeg, Ian Czekala +12

Ages and masses of young stars are often estimated by comparing their luminosities and effective temperatures to pre-main sequence stellar evolution tracks, but magnetic fields and…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

The [Ne III] Jet of DG Tau and its Ionization Scenarios

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang, Gregory J. Herczeg +1

Forbidden neon emission from jets of low-mass young stars can be used to probe the underlying high-energy processes in these systems. We analyze spectra of the jet of DG Tau obtain…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 9 cited

Velocity-Resolved [Ne III] from X-Ray Irradiated Sz 102 Microjets

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang, Frederick M. Walter +1

Neon emission lines are good indicators of high-excitation regions close to a young stellar system because of their high ionization potentials and large critical densities. We have…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 21 cited

RW Aur A from the X-Wind Point of View: General Features

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang

In this paper, the RW Aur A microjet is studied from the point of view of X-wind models. The archived HST/STIS spectra of optical forbidden lines [O I], [S II], and [N II] from RW…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 17 cited

Is FS Tau B Driving an Asymmetric Jet?

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang, Tae-Soo Pyo +6

FS Tau B is one of the few T Tauri stars that possess a jet and a counterjet as well as an optically-visible cavity wall. We obtained images and spectra of its jet-cavity system in…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 25 cited

Fine-Structure Line Emission from the Outflows of Young Stellar Objects

Hsien Shang, Alfred Glassgold, Wei-Chieh Lin +1

The flux and line shape of the fine-structure transitions of \NeII\ and \NeIII\ at 12.8 and 15.55\,m and of the forbidden transitions of \OI\ are calculated for yo…