Observations of the H66α recombination line from the ionized gas in the cluster of newly formed massive stars, G106.—0.4, show that most of the continuum emission derives from the dense gas in an ionized accretion flow that forms an ionized disk or torus around a group of stars in the center of the cluster. The inward motion observed in the accretion flow suggests that despite the equivalent luminosity and ionizing radiation of several O stars, neither radiation pressure nor thermal pressure has reversed the accretion flow. The observations indicate why the radiation pressure of the stars and the thermal pressure of the HII region are not effective in reversing the accretion flow.
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Keto, E. (2005). Observations of Accretion onto High Mass Stars. In: Kumar, M.S.N., Tafalla, M., Caselli, P. (eds) Cores to Clusters. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 324. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26357-8_9
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