Infall of gas as the formation mechanism of stars up to 20 times more massive than the Sun

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7110, 2006, Pages 427-429

  Beltrán, Maria T ^a   Cesaroni, Riccardo ^b   Codella, Claudio ^c   Testi, Leonardo ^b   Furuya, Ray S ^d   Olmi, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GAS ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; ROTATING DISKS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH;

ACCRETION; HIGH MASS STARS; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS; TOROIDS;

SUN;

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GAS; MASS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 33749188623     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05074     Document Type: Article

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