Early Phases of Protostellar Discs: Studies with radiation transfer magneto-hydrodynamic simulations

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Robi Stefan Banerjee
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 313436735

Discs and disc-like structures play a fundamental role in the formation of stars and planets. Due to angular-momentum conservations it is inevitable that discs will build up around young stellar objects during their assembly from collapsing cloud cores. Yet it is not clear during which state discs first appear around protostars and what are the expected observational signatures during the early phases of disc evolution. Also form the theoretical point of few, it is not clear what kind of signatures one should expect from those deeply embedded young protostars surrounded by rotating structures. Hence, the aim of this proposed project is to study the early phases of disc evolution with radiation-transfer magneto-hdyrdodynamical simulations (RT- MHD).

• DFG Programme: Research Grants