Implications of protostellar disk fragmentation

Author(s)
Eduard Vorobyov, Shantanu Basu
Abstract

We review several outcomes of disk gravitational fragmentation in the early evolution of solar-mass protostars. In particular, we focus on the ejection of fragments into the intracluster medium, formation of wide-separation brown-dwarf companions to solar-type stars and annealing of amorphous silicates in the depths of massive and hot fragments.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics, Research Platform Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics
External organisation(s)
Southern Federal University, University of Western Ontario
Volume
36
Pages
41-44
No. of pages
4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_7
Publication date
2014
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103004 Astrophysics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science Applications, Spectroscopy, Space and Planetary Science, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7e9155cb-6ec3-412e-834d-291fe193f345