Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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Accretion and Feedback in the Formation of Massive Stars

Rolf Kuiper , Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen

In the course of their accretion phase, massive (proto)stars impact their natal environment in a variety of feedback effects such as thermal heating, protostellar jets and outflows, radiation forces, as well as photoionization and HII regions. Here, I present our most recent simulation results in terms of the relative strength of the feedback components and the size of the reservoir from which the forming stars gain their masses. For the first time, these simulations include all of the feedback effects mentioned above which allows us to shed light on the physical reason for the upper mass limit of present-day stars. Furthermore, we predict the fragmentation of massive circumstellar accretion disks as a viable road to the formation of spectroscopic massive binaries and the recently observed strong accretion bursts in high-mass star forming regions.

ARI Institute Colloquium
11 Oct 2018, 11:15
ARI Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1

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