(Mostly) Observational Aspects of High-Mass Star Formation
Peter Schilke
TL;DR
This review summarizes key observational findings related to high-mass star formation, emphasizing core properties, star isolation, filament roles, and disk characteristics to inform theoretical models.
Contribution
It compiles and discusses current observational evidence on high-mass star formation, highlighting critical constraints for theoretical models.
Findings
Existence and properties of high-mass starless cores
Role of filaments in mass transport
Binary and disk properties around high-mass stars
Abstract
A review on current observations of high-mass star formation is given, with a little bit of theoretical background. Particular emphasis is given to the, in my opinion, most important observations to put strong constraints on models of high-mass star formation: the existence and properties of high-mass starless cores, the existence or not of isolated high-mass stars, the possible support mechanisms of starless cores, the role of filaments in the mass transport to high-mass cores, ways of characterizing cores, the binary properties, and the properties of disks around high-mass stars.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies