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The Circumstellar Environment of Embedded Massive Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Lee G. Mundy ,
Friedrich Wyrowski  and
Sarah Watt
Lee G. Mundy
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Friedrich Wyrowski
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Sarah Watt
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Millimeter and submillimeter wavelength images of massive star-forming regions are uncovering the natal material distribution and revealing the complexities of their circumstellar environments on size scales from parsecs to 100’s of AU. Progress in these areas has been slower than for low-mass stars because massive stars are more distant, and because they are gregarious siblings with different evolutionary stages that can co-exist even within a core. Nevertheless, observational goals for the near future include the characterization of an early evolutionary sequence for massive stars, determination if the accretion process and formation sequence for massive stars is similar to that of low-mass stars, and understanding of the role of triggering events in massive star formation.

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II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 143 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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