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- Title
MASSES: An SMA Large Project Surveying Protostars to Reveal How Stars Gain their Mass.
- Authors
Stephens, Ian W.; Dunham, Michael M.; Myers, Philip C.; Pokhrel, Riwaj; Bourke, Tyler L.
- Abstract
Low-mass stars form from the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. While a general consensus picture of this collapse process has emerged, many details on how mass is transferred from cores to stars remain poorly understood. MASSES (Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA), an SMA large project, has just finished surveying all 74 Class 0 and Class I protostars in the nearby Perseus molecular cloud to reveal the interplay between fragmentation, angular momentum, and outflows in regulating accretion and setting the final masses of stars. Scientific highlights are presented in this proceedings, covering the topics of episodic accretion, hierarchical thermal Jeans fragmentation, angular momentum transfer, envelope grain sizes, and disk evolution.
- Publication
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2018, Vol 14, Issue S345, p66
- ISSN
1743-9213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1743921319001716