Nearly Edge on Silhouette Disks From the FLAMINGOS Molecular Cloud Survey
- Author(s)
- R. J. Elston, E. A. Lada, J. Alves, B. Ferreira, C. J. Lada, J. Levine, A. A. Muench, S. N. Raines, N. Rashkind, C. Roman
- Abstract
It has been found that circumstellar disks are ubiquitous around young
stars in the process of formation. Not only are such disks crucial for
the processes of star formation, but they are also the sites of planet
formation. To constrain theories of star and planet formation one would
like to know the properties of these circumstellar disks (i.e. mass,
size, temperature, accretion rate, etc). Nearly edge on silhouette disks
provide the opportunity to model the properties of these circumstellar
disks in detail. Here, we present a catalog of nearly edge on silhouette
disks from our NOAO survey "Toward a Complete Near-Infrared
Spectroscopic and Imaging Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds". These disks
were found in K-band (2.3μ m) images of the Orion-B and Perseus
molecular clouds. The discovery of these disks significantly increases
the number of such disks currently known. We acknowledge the support
from NSF Grant AST 0204976 to the University of Florida.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos, University of South Florida, Joint ALMA Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Journal
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Volume
- 35
- Pages
- 737
- ISSN
- 0002-7537
- Publication date
- 05-2003
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/nearly-edge-on-silhouette-disks-from-the-flamingos-molecular-cloud-survey(3e172152-6651-47ff-b1d1-f6bba1cedcd3).html