Giant planet and brown dwarf formation

G Chabrier, A Johansen, M Janson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Understanding the dominant brown dwarf and giant planet formation processes, and finding
out whether these processes rely on completely different mechanisms or share common …

The APOGEE-2 survey of the orion star-forming complex. II. Six-dimensional structure

M Kounkel, K Covey, G Suárez… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of spectroscopic and astrometric data from APOGEE-2 and Gaia
DR2 to identify structures toward the Orion Complex. By applying a hierarchical clustering …

Protoplanetary disk lifetimes vs. stellar mass and possible implications for giant planet populations

Á Ribas, H Bouy, B Merín - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the dependence of protoplanetary disk evolution on stellar mass using a
large sample of young stellar objects in nearby young star-forming regions. Methods. We …

Pre-main-sequence isochrones–II. Revising star and planet formation time-scales

CPM Bell, T Naylor, NJ Mayne… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We have derived ages for 13 young (< 30 Myr) star-forming regions and find that they are up
to a factor of 2 older than the ages typically adopted in the literature. This result has wide …

The dispersal of protoplanetary discs–III. Influence of stellar mass on disc photoevaporation

G Picogna, B Ercolano… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The strong X-ray irradiation from young solar-type stars may play a crucial role in the
thermodynamics and chemistry of circumstellar discs, driving their evolution in the last …

Disk evolution in the solar neighborhood-I. Disk frequencies from 1 to 100 Myr

Á Ribas, B Merín, H Bouy, LT Maud - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the evolution of circumstellar disks in 22 young (1 to 100 Myr) nearby (within
500 pc) associations over the entire mass spectrum using photometry covering from the …

The origin and universality of the stellar initial mass function

SSR Offner, PC Clark, P Hennebelle… - … and Planets VI, 2014 - books.google.com
We review current theories for the origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) with
particular focus on the extent to which the IMF can be considered universal across various …

Observed luminosity spread in young clusters and FU Ori stars: a unified picture

I Baraffe, E Vorobyov, G Chabrier - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The idea that non-steady accretion during the embedded phase of protostar evolution can
produce the observed luminosity spread in the Herzsprung–Russell diagram (HRD) of …

Lithium depletion boundary, stellar associations, and Gaia

FJ Galindo-Guil, D Barrado, H Bouy, J Olivares… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar ages are key to improving our understanding of different astrophysical
phenomena. However, many techniques to estimate stellar ages are highly model …

The initial mass function of the orion nebula cluster across the H-burning limit

N Da Rio, M Robberto, LA Hillenbrand… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new census of the Orion Nebula Cluster over a large field of view (≳ 30'× 30'),
significantly increasing the known population of stellar and substellar cluster members with …