Evoluzione delle giovani stelle Ae/Be di Herbig dallo studio del Litio. Lo studio: “Lithium and the evolution of intermediate-mass T Tauri and Herbig stars. Rotation, accretion, and planets” di I. Mendigutía (Centro de Astrobiología)

Evoluzione interna delle giovani stelle di massa intermedia rivelata dall’abbondanza chimica del Litio   Le giovani stelle di massa intermedia (con una massa compresa tra 1.5 e 3.5 masse solari) attraversano un’evoluzione estremamente rapida della propria struttura interna nei primi milioni di anni di vita. Partendo da una configurazione completamente convettiva (in cui l’energia viene trasportata dal nucleo verso l’esterno

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Accretion and dispersion of protoplanetary disks. The study: “X-shooter spectroscopy of young stars with disks. The TW Hydrae association as a probe of the final stages of disk accretion” by L. Venuti (Eberhard Karls Universität/Cornell University/NASA) recently published by A&A

At a distance of about 160 light years, the stellar association TW Hydrae is a benchmark for the study of pre-main sequence stars and their protoplanetary disks. Pre-main sequence stars are a few million years old stars, still gravitationally contracting and not powered yet by the thermonuclear reactions. They are often surrounded by disks of dust and gas called “protoplanetary

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OAPA astronomers participated at the study: “Laboratory unraveling of matter accretion in young stars” of G. Reves published by Science Advances

Pre-Main Sequence stars are young stars (solar type pre-main sequence stars are younger than about 30 million years), that are often observed surrounded by a disc of haas and dust called “protoplanetary discs”. These discs can actively accreting matter onto the central star, with a complex process resulting from a complicated interplay between the gas of the disc and the

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