Astronomy 98r: Protostar Analysis in the Perseus Cluster
| Main Author: | Dillett, Sean |
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| Format: | info publication-thesis |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/572994 |
Daftar Isi:
- The first million years of the formation of low mass stars has been described before in the literature, but is still not entirely understood due to minimal observation. The MASSES (Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA) observing project intends to paint a more detailed picture than ever before by observing and analyzing of 73 different protostar targets in the Perseus star forming nebula. The research pays special attention to how low mass stars accrete mass during their formation and what observations of the protostellar envelope and outflow can tell us about this process. Using C18O observations of the envelope of the most easily resolved targets in the survey my project looks to find correlation between the the position angle of the envelope and the direction of the stellar outflows, both calculated from the MASSES survey. The results suggest that the model for protostellar outflows role in the formation and shaping of the accretion disk may be large.
- Astro 98