The Relation between the Mass Accretion Rate and the Disk Mass in Class I Protostars

Fiorellino, Elenonora and Tychoniec, Lukasz and Manara, Carlo F. and Rosotti, Giovanni and Antoniucci, Simone and Fernando, Cruz-Saenz de Miera and Kóspál, Ágnes (2022) The Relation between the Mass Accretion Rate and the Disk Mass in Class I Protostars. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 937 (1). ISSN 2041-8205

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Abstract

Evidence of a relation between the mass accretion rate and the disk mass is established for young, Class II pre-main-sequence stars. This observational result opened an avenue to test theoretical models and constrain the initial conditions of disk formation, fundamental in the understanding of the emergence of planetary systems. However, it is becoming clear that planet formation starts even before the Class II stage, in disks around Class 0 and I protostars. We show for the first time evidence for a correlation between the mass accretion rate and the disk mass for a large sample of Class I young stars located in nearby (<500 pc) star-forming regions. We fit our sample, finding that the Class I object relation has a slope flatter than Class II stars, and the former have higher mass accretion rates and disk masses. The results are put in context of disk evolution models.

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