2003/12/18 by M. T. Beltrn, Maria T. Beltran, Riccardo Cesaroni +11 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/382150
published as Astrophys.J. 601 (2004) L187-L190 · 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication by ApJL
arxiv created 2003/12/18 · openalex publication_date 2004/01/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report on the detection of four rotating massive disks in two regions of high-mass star formation. The disks are perpendicular to known bipolar outflows and turn out to be unstable but long lived. We infer that accretion onto the embedded (proto)stars must proceed through the disks with rates of ~10E-2 Msun/yr.