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My group studies the cutest stars - big and cuddly protostars only 10,000 to 100,000 years old, before they turn punky and begin to fuse hydrogen into helium in their core in about 1 million years. These stars are surrounded by envelopes of dust and gas that give us direct evidence of how stars form and how early planetary systems are going to form. Lately, we have been most excited about 1) how circumstellar disks evolve from the earliest stages and what impact the disk has on the evolution of planets via dust grain growth, and 2) the polarization of light from the circumstellar disk which arises from three mechanisms, aligned dust grains via magnetic field, aligned dust grains from radiation, and/or scattering.
The sources we study are usually deeply embedded in gas and dust, which means that they can only be observed at wavelengths longer than 10 microns. Thus, our group typically utilizes ALMA, SOFIA, and VLA observations to peer into stellar nurseries.
However, lately I am also considering variability of sources in LSST.
Current Graduate Students:
Past Graduate Students:
Shiya Wang (2008)
Yu-Shao "Jerry" Shiao (2008)
Woojin Kwon (2009)
Jonathan Seale (2010)
Hsin-Fang Chiang (2011)
I-Jen "Katherine" Lee (2013)
Ian Stephens (2013)
Dominique Segura-Cox (2017)
Erin Cox (2018)
Honors & Awards
Teaching
ASTR 100 Online - Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 122 - Stars and Galaxies
ASTR 122 CH Stars and Galaxies
ASTR 150 - Killer Skies: Astro-Disasters
ASTR 330 CH - Extraterrestrial Life
ASTR 330 ONL - Extraterrestrial Life
ASTR 496 - Star Formation
ASTR 499 - Astronomy Laboratory
ASTR 505 - Star Formation
Office Address
123 Astronomy Building, MC-221
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
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Discovery of a Collimated Jet from the Low-luminosity Protostar IRAS 16253−2429 in a Quiescent Accretion Phase with the JWST
Narang, M., Manoj, P., Tyagi, H., Watson, D. M., Megeath, S. T., Federman, S., Rubinstein, A. E., Gutermuth, R., Caratti o Garatti, A., Beuther, H., Bourke, T. L., Van Dishoeck, E. F., Evans, N. J., Anglada, G., Osorio, M., Stanke, T., Muzerolle, J., Looney, L. W., Yang, Y. L. & Klaassen, P. & 19 others, , Feb 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 962, 1, L16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dynamics in Star-forming Cores (DiSCo): project overview and the first look towards the B1 and NGC 1333 regions in Perseus
Chen, C. Y., Friesen, R., Li, J., Schmiedeke, A., Frayer, D., Li, Z. Y., Tobin, J., Looney, L. W., Offner, S., Mundy, L. G., Harris, A. I., Church, S., Ostriker, E. C., Pineda, J. E., Hsieh, T. H. & Lam, K. H., Feb 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527, 4, p. 10279-10293 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIII. Aligned Disks with Nonsettled Dust around the Newly Resolved Class 0 Protobinary R CrA IRAS 32
Encalada, F. J., Looney, L. W., Takakuwa, S., Tobin, J. J., Ohashi, N., Jørgensen, J. K., Li, Z. Y., Aikawa, Y., Aso, Y., Koch, P. M., Kwon, W., Lai, S. P., Lee, C. W., Lin, Z. Y. D., Santamaría-Miranda, A., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Phuong, N. T., Plunkett, A., Sai, J. & Sharma, R. & 2 others, , May 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 966, 1, 32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIV. Flared Dust Distribution and Viscous Accretion Heating of the Disk around R CrA IRS 7B-a
Takakuwa, S., Saigo, K., Kido, M., Ohashi, N., Tobin, J. J., Jørgensen, J. K., Aikawa, Y., Aso, Y., Gavino, S., Han, I., Koch, P. M., Kwon, W., Lee, C. W., Lee, J. E., Li, Z. Y., Lin, Z. Y. D., Looney, L. W., Mori, S., Sai, J. & Sharma, R. & 5 others, , Mar 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 964, 1, 24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XV. Influence of Magnetic Field Morphology in Dense Cores on Sizes of Protostellar Disks
Yen, H. W., Williams, J. P., Sai, J., Koch, P. M., Han, I., Jørgensen, J. K., Kwon, W., Lee, C. W., Li, Z. Y., Looney, L. W., Narang, M., Ohashi, N., Takakuwa, S., Tobin, J. J., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Lai, S. P., Lee, J. E. & Tomida, K., Jul 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 969, 2, 125.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Data for: The 30 Doradus Molecular Cloud at 0.4 pc Resolution with ALMA: Physical Properties and the Boundedness of CO-emitting Structures
Wong, T. (Creator), Oudshoorn, L. (Creator), Sofovich, E. (Creator), Green, A. (Creator), Shah, C. (Creator), Indebetouw, R. (Creator), Meixner, M. (Creator), Hacar, A. (Creator), Nayak, O. (Creator), Tokuda, K. (Creator), Bolatto, A. D. (Creator), Chevance, M. (Creator), De Marchi, G. (Creator), Fukui, Y. (Creator), Hirschauer, A. S. (Creator), Jameson, K. E. (Creator), Kalari, V. (Creator), Lebouteiller, V. (Creator), Looney, L. W. (Creator), Madden, S. C. (Creator), Onishi, T. (Creator), Roman-Duval, J. (Creator), Rubio, M. (Creator) & Tielens, A. G. G. M. (Creator), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jun 15 2022
DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-1671495_V1
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