Circumstellar Disks and Envelopes around Young Low-mass S...
Quanz, Sascha P.
How do stars - like our sun - form? Where do planets come from? - In the last years astronomers were able to uncover some of the fundamental processes related to these very questions. It showed that circumstellar disks and envelopes of gas, dust and ices are a natural byproduct of the formation process of young stars. These objects grow then more massive by accreting material from the disk, which itself is fed by the envelope in the early phas...