Constraining the Initial Conditions and Final Outcomes of Accretion Processes around Young Stars and Supermassive Black Holes

In this thesis I discuss probes of small spatial scales around young stars and protostars and around the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. I begin by describing adaptive optics-fed infrared spectroscopic studies of nascent and newborn binary systems. Binary star formation is a signific...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Jordan Michael
Other Authors: Eisner, Joshua A.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/593497