An international scientific team led by Dr. Alessio Caratti o Garatti from the Astronomy & Astrophysics Section of the School of Cosmic Physics here at DIAS, for the first time observed and analyzed an outburst from a high-mass young stellar object that was caused by material accreting onto the star.
Read the paper published in Nature Physics this week here : http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3942.html
Press releases:
https://www.gemini.edu/node/12584
http://www.dsi.uni-stuttgart.de/aktuelles/news/news_0056.en.html
http://www.caha.es/a-startburst-reveals-the-formation-mechanism-of-massive-stars.html
Artist’s impression of an accretion burst in a high-mass young stellar object like S255 NIRS 3. Image Credit: Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI).
Pre-outburst (left) and outburst (middle) near-infrared images (K, H, J bands) of the high-mass young stellar object S255IR NIRS 3, taken from 2009 UKIDSS archive data and the PANIC camera (Calar Alto Observatory, Man-Planck Society) in 2016, respectively, as well as outburst mid-infrared images (right) taken with FORCAST / SOFIA at 7.7, 19.7 and 31.5 microns (2016). Copyright: Caratti o Garatti.
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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
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