What does CSM stand for?

Circumstellar Material

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The meeting focused on active OB-stars as laboratories for the study of physical processes leading to stellar activity and the ejection of circumstellar material, particularly the orbiting disk that is central to rapidly rotating B-type stars with prominent emission lines of hydrogen in their spectrums (Be stars).

Active OB-Stars; laboratories for stellar and circumstellar physics; ...

But studying this circumstellar material, or nebula, has proven difficult with ground-based telescopes: The nebula is relatively small, faint, and too close to the dazzling light from the star to observe clearly In imaging the star and its surroundings, a new camera aboard the repaired Hubble Space Telescope has revealed previously unknown structure in the dust.

A massive star lights its surroundings

In similar stars just a few million years older, most of this circumstellar material has apparently disappeared (SN: 10/29/88, p.

A rocky start: pinning down the time of the solar system's ...