Invited Presentation
MASSES: An SMA Large-Scale Program Surveying Protostars to Reveal How Stars Gain their Mass
Presenter: Ian Stephens (CfA)
Low-mass stars form from the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. While a general consensus picture of this collapse process has emerged, many details on how mass is transferred from cores to stars remain poorly understood. MASSES (Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA), an SMA large-scale program, is surveying all 75 Class 0 and Class I protostars in the nearby Perseus Molecular Cloud in order to reveal the interplay between fragmentation, angular momentum, magnetic fields, and mass outflows in regulating accretion and setting the final masses of stars. In this presentation I will highlight key science results from the first two years of MASSES observations.
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