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High-mass Star Formation: a Revised View of the Challenges

Speaker Dr. M. S. Nanda Kumar
Affiliation Centro de Astrofísica, da Universidade de Porto
Date November 14, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time 3:30 p.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract
 

I will review the state-of-the-art questions in forming the highest mass stars; radiation pressure, fragmentation and feedback. Next, I will present new ALMA and VLT adaptive optics data of G333.6-0.2, the most luminous star-forming core of the Milk-way disk, and demonstrate the effects of fragmentation, feedback, radiation pressure. The intense UV radiation from young O-stars have been theorised to ionise its own accretion flow, which is discovered for the first time from our data. I will conclude with an emerging view of high-mass star formation scenario from these and other ALMA observations.

Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.