Jets, mass outflows and disks associated with young stellar objects

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Accretion Disks, Faint Objects, Mass Flow, Plasma Jets, Charge Coupled Devices, Emission Spectra, Spectral Emission, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass

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Over the past 3 years, a series was obtained of the CCD images of regions surrounding young stellar objects (YSO's) located in a variety of environments with the goal of providing a census of the properties of mass outflows associated these objects. A catalog describing the optical morphology and kinematics of 38 mass outflows associated with young stellar objects (YSOs) was completed. The direct detection was reported of disks surrounding HL Tau and LI551/IRS 5 -- both sources of optical jets and large-scale mass outflows. In each case, the disk dimensions are on the order of several hundred astronomical units and the disk dust masses approximately 10 to the -7th power solar masses. A program aimed at indirect detection of circumstellar disks associated with YSOs was started. The technique involves comparison of an observed bolometric luminosity (L(bol)) with an independent measure of the true luminosity (L(spec)) of a YSO which derives from the observed strengths of surface-gravity-sensitive spectral features.

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