Felipe Alves

We see two compact sources that we interpret as circumstellar disks around the two young stars, the size of each of these disks is similar to the asteroid belt in our Solar System and the separation between them is 28 times the distance between the Sun and the Earth.

We expect this two-level accretion process to drive the dynamics of the binary system during its mass accretion phase, while the good agreement of these observations with theory is already very promising, we will need to study more young binary systems in detail to better understand how multiple stars form.