Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio telescope system clearly reveals the presence of a rotating, molecular disk ...
Current models of massive galaxy formation suggest that they evolve as part of a slow growth process, gradually increasing in size through mergers with smaller galaxies and the accumulation of clumps ...
Figure 1: ALMA and VLA images of the disk and triple protostar system L1448 IRS3B. Figure 2: Images of the C 18 O emission and its corresponding velocity maps from the disk around L1448 IRS3B, showing ...