Are all young stars disc accretors?

Abstract

We now understand how low mass stars evolve through cloud collapse and disc accretion, but whether higher mass stars are also disc accretors is as yet unknown. Spectropolarimetry observations can help in answering this basic question, as they probe the first few stellar radii around young stars.

2 figures, 2 pages, to appear in: "The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth"