- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/580/A26
- Title:
- T Tauri star population in Lupus
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/580/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In a recent study, we derived individual distances for 109 pre-main sequence stars that define the Lupus kinematic association of young stars. Here, we use these new distances to derive the masses and ages of Lupus T Tauri stars with the aim of better constraining the lifetime of their circumstellar disks. Using the photometric and spectroscopic information available in the literature, we computed the photospheric luminosity of 92 T Tauri stars in the Lupus association. Then, we estimated their masses and ages from theoretical evolutionary models. Based on Monte Carlo simulations and statistical tests, we compare the mass and age distribution of the classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) and weak-line T Tauri (WTTS) in our sample. We show that the CTTSs are on average younger than the WTTSs and that the probability that both T Tauri subclasses are drawn from the same mass and age parental distribution is very low. Our results favor the scenario proposed earlier for the Taurus-Auriga association, where the CTTSs evolve into WTTSs when their disks are fully accreted by the star. Based on an empirical disk model, we find that the average disk lifetime for the T Tauri stars in the Lupus association is {tau}_d_=3x10^6^(M_*_/M_{sun}_)^0.55^yr. We find evidence that the average lifetime of the circumstellar disks in the Lupus association is shorter than in the Taurus-Auriga association and discuss the implications of this result.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/1783
- Title:
- 33 T Tauri stars in Taurus Halpha measurements
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/1783
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We conducted a 12-month monitoring campaign of 33 T Tauri stars (TTS) in Taurus. Our goal was to monitor objects that possess a disc but have a weak H{alpha} line, a common accretion tracer for young stars, in order to determine whether they host a passive circumstellar disc. We used medium-resolution optical spectroscopy to assess the accretion status of the objects and to measure the H{alpha} line. We found no convincing examples of passive discs: only transition disc and debris disc systems in our sample are non-accreting. Among accretors, we found no example of flickering accretion, leading to an upper limit of 2.2 per cent on the duty cycle of accretion gaps, assuming that all accreting TTS experience such events. When combining literature results with our observations, we found that the reliability of traditional H{alpha}-based criteria to test for accretion is high but imperfect, particularly for low-mass TTS. We found a significant correlation between stellar mass and the full width at 10 per cent of the peak (W_10_) of the H{alpha} line that does not seem to be related to variations in free-fall velocity. Finally, our data revealed a positive correlation between the H{alpha} equivalent width and its W_10_, indicative of a systematic modulation in the line profile whereby the high-velocity wings of the line are proportionally more enhanced than its core when the line luminosity increases. We argue that this supports the hypothesis that the mass accretion rate on the central star is correlated with the H{alpha} W_10_ through a common physical mechanism.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/356/541
- Title:
- T Tauri stars in the Sco-Cen OB association
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/356/541
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a search for binarity among young stars, performed in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association on a sample of 118 X-ray selected T Tauri stars. We use speckle interferometry and direct-imaging observations to find companions in the separation range 0.13-6". After corrections to account for confusion with background stars and for the bias induced by the X-ray selection, we find a multiplicity (number of binaries or multiples divided by number of systems) of 32.6+/-6.1)%, and a number of companions per system of (35.2+/-6.3)%. This is higher by a factor of 1.59+/-0.34 compared to main-sequence stars, but slightly lower than in a sample in the Taurus-Auriga star-forming region that was selected and studied similary. In Scorpius-Centaurus, we find fewer binaries with nearly equal brightness than in Taurus-Auriga. There are significant differences between the period distributions in the two subgroups Upper Scorpius A and B: The peak of the distribution of stars in US-A is at about 10^5^ days, while that of stars in US-B is around 10^6.5^ days. We compared our results with the optical multiplicity survey of Brandner et al. (1996A&A...307..121B), whose sample contains 49 stars that were also observed by us, and find no infrared companions. The flux ratio distributions of close and wide binaries in our sample show no significant difference.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/297/391
- Title:
- T Tauri stars ROSAT survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/297/391
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the X-ray emission of T Tauri stars (TTS) in Taurus-Auriga as observed with the spatially unbiased flux-limited ROSAT All-Sky Survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/120/267
- Title:
- T Tauri stars UBrHalphaz photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/120/267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of UBrH_{alpha}_z monitoring of a sample of T Tauri stars. The method of differential CCD photometry was applied. The observations span a range of ten days and show that eleven out of twelve sources varied during this time interval. These variations are correlated in all bands. Periods were detected (confidence level 99.99%) for eight out of eleven variable stars; one additional period was found at the 99.9% confidence level. Of those, one (BP Tau) agrees with previously published periods; two, GM Aur and IQ Tau, do not; six are new detections of periodicities. The sample is drawn from the Taurus-Auriga and Cepheus IV star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/587/A81
- Title:
- T Tauri stars X-ray/accretion anti correlation
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/587/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Depending on whether a T Tauri star accretes material from its circumstellar disk or not, different X-ray emission properties can be found. The accretion shocks produce cool heating of the plasma, contributing to the soft X-ray emission from the star. Using X-ray data from the Chandra Orion Ultra-deep Project and accretion rates that were obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 photometric measurements in the Orion Nebula Cluster, we studied the relation between the accretion processes and the X-ray emissions of a coherent sample of T Tauri sources in the region. We performed regression and correlation analyses of our sample of T Tauri stars between the X-ray parameters, stellar properties, and the accretion measurements. We find that a clear anti-correlation is present between the residual X-ray luminosity and the accretion rates in our samples in Orion that is consistent with that found on the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus molecular cloud (XEST) study. A considerable number of classified non-accreting sources show accretion rates comparable to those of classical T Tauri Stars (CTTS). Our data do not allow us to confirm the classification between classical and weak-line T Tauri stars (WTTS), and the number of WTTS in this work is small compared to the complete samples. Thus, we have used the entire samples as accretors in our analysis. We provide a catalog with X-ray luminosities (corrected from distance) and accretion measurements of an Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) T Tauri stars sample.
487. T Tau Stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/326/211
- Title:
- T Tau Stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/326/211
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a study to investigate the spatial distribution of X-ray active young stellar objects near the Lupus star forming region (SFR). In this SFR, a recent study has led to the discovery of some 130 new weak-line T Tauri stars (WTTS) dispersed over a large area of some 230 square degrees. However, the true extent of the spatial distribution of these stars could not be determined in this study.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/519/A83
- Title:
- T Tau stars toward the Taurus-Auriga region
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/519/A83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We search for new T Tauri star (TTS) candidates with the mid-infrared (MIR) part of the AKARI All-Sky Survey at 9 and 18{mu}m wavelengths. We used the point source catalogue (PSC) obtained by the Infrared Camera (IRC) on board AKARI. We combined the 2MASS PSC and the 3rd version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalogue (UCAC) with the AKARI IRC-PSC, and surveyed 517 known TTSs over a 1800-square-degree part of the Taurus-Auriga region to develop criteria to extract TTSs. We considered asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, post-AGB stars, planetary nebulae (PNe), and galaxies, which have similar MIR colours, to separate TTSs from these sources. We finally searched for new TTS candidates from AKARI IRC-PSC in the same Taurus-Auriga region. Of the 517 known TTSs, we detected 133 sources with AKARI: 46 sources were not detected by IRAS. Based on the colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams made from the AKARI, 2MASS, and UCAC surveys, we propose the criteria to extract TTS candidates from the AKARI All-Sky data, and 68/133 AKARI detected TTSs have passed these criteria. On the basis of our criteria, we selected 176/14725 AKARI sources as TTS candidates that are located around the Taurus-Auriga region. Comparing these sources with SIMBAD, we found that 148 are previously identified sources including 115 young stellar objects (YSOs), and 28 unidentified sources. Based on SIMBAD identifications, we infer the TTS-identification probability using our criteria to be ~75%. We find 28 TTS candidates, of which we expect ~21 to be confirmed once follow-up observations can be obtained. Although the probability of ~75% is not so high, it is affected by the completeness of the SIMBAD database, and we can search for TTSs over the whole sky, and all star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/592/A49
- Title:
- TW Hya CO (2-1), CN (2-1) and CS (5-4) data cubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/592/A49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We aim to obtain a spatially resolved measurement of velocity dispersions in the disk of TW Hya. We obtained images with high spatial and spectral resolution of the CO J=2-1, CN N=2-1 and CS J=5-4 emission with ALMA in Cycle 2. The radial distribution of the turbulent broadening was derived with two direct methods and one modelling approach. The first method requires a single transition and derives T_ex_ directly from the line profile, yielding a v_turb_. The second method assumes that two different molecules are co-spatial, which allows using their relative line widths for calculating T_kin_ and v_turb_. Finally we fitted a parametric disk model in which the physical properties of the disk are described by power laws, to compare our direct methods with previous values.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A46
- Title:
- TW Hydrae association with X-shooter
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Measurements of the protoplanetary disk frequency in young star clusters of different ages indicate disk lifetimes <10Myr. However, our current knowledge of how mass accretion in young stars evolves over the lifespans of disks is subject to many uncertainties, especially at the lower stellar masses. In this study, we investigate ongoing accretion activity in the TW Hydrae association (TWA), the closest association of pre-main sequence stars with active disks. The age (8-10Myr) and the proximity of the TWA render it an ideal target to probe the final stages of disk accretion down to brown dwarf masses. The study is based on homogeneous spectroscopic data from 300nm to 2500nm, obtained synoptically with X-shooter, which allows simultaneous derivation of individual extinction, stellar parameters, and accretion parameters for each star. The continuum excess emission diagnostics is used to estimate the accretion luminosities and mass accretion rates of our disk-bearing targets, and the shape and intensity of permitted and forbidden emission lines are analyzed to probe the physics of the star-disk interaction environment.
