A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae

A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae

What happens when a newly formed star captures material from a nearby cloud? A new study provides a glimpse into how the planet-forming system AB Aurigae is under renovation. Late Infall and Planet Formation Gas, dust, and rocky materials swirl around recently formed stars, creating a circumstellar disk that seeds the formation of planets. Recent observations of some of these disks reveal filamentary structures of material falling into the disk,…