MHD simulations of the radio emission from a flaring T Tauri star. The study: “Predicting the time variation of radio emission from MHD simulations of a flaring T-Tauri star” of Waterfall C. O. G. (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics) recently appeared on MNRAS

T Tauri stars are young low-mass stars (typically younger than 5 million of years), which are surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, e.g. a disk of gas and dust orbiting around the star. The disk material does not reach the central star: the dust component sublimates in the inner disk, where the temperature exceeds 1500 degrees, while the gas disk is truncated

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Heating and emission in the accreting material onto young stars. The study: “Effects of radiation in accretion regions of classical T Tauri stars. Pre-heating of accretion column in non-LTE regime” of S. Colombo (UNIPA/OAPA/LERMA) recently appeared on A&A

Pre-Main Sequence stars are young (few million years) stars whose nuclei are not powered yet by the thermonuclear reactions, and that may still accrete gas from a surrounding disk (called protoplanetary or accretion disks). Even if the accretion disks are typically extended more than 100 Astronomical Units (AU, the mean distance between Earth and the Sun, equal to 150 million

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Star formation in the Vela. Published on A&A the study: “Low-mass star formation and subclustering in the H II regions RCW 32, 33, and 27 of the Vela Molecular Ridge. A photometric diagnostics for identifying M-type stars” of L. Prisinzano (INAF-OAPA)

In the Milky Way one of the main modes of star formation is in stellar clusters, which remain associated with their parental cloud for about 5-10 million years. This makes the star forming regions complex targets, characterised by rich stellar populations packed into small regions, sometime even with massive stars, and clouds whose morphology and properties are affected by the

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