scholarly journals Parallaxes and Proper Motions of Prototypes of Astrophysically Interesting Classes of Stars

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 559-559
Author(s):  
V. Trimble ◽  
G.H. Herbig ◽  
A. Kundu

Early release data were obtained under the 1982 announcement of opportunity for about two dozen stars belonging to seven classes whose basic properties or evolutionary status were uncertain at the time. A good many remain so. Many of the stars were too faint and far for parallaxes to be statistically significant, though many of the proper motions are. Two papers presenting the data have been accepted by archival journals (Trimble and Kundu 1997, 1998). Both bear the same title as this Abstract The first deals with the R Coronae Borealis variables, the second with the other six classes (FK Comae Stars, CVs, runaway T Tauri stars, and so forth).

1983 ◽  
Vol 269 ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mundt ◽  
F. M. Walter ◽  
E. D. Feigelson ◽  
U. Finkenzeller ◽  
G. H. Herbig ◽  
...  

1990 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
I. Appenzeller

T Tauri stars and flare stars are both magnetically active late-type stars of low mass and low to moderate luminosities. The flares observed in these two classes of variables show similar properties and, thus, probably have the same physical origin. On the other hand, at least the majority of the classical T Tauri stars seem to be surrounded by cool, dusty (accretion) disks, which are absent or undetectable in most classical flare stars.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Eretnova ◽  
Alexander Dudorov

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (S299) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Yukako Aimi ◽  
Misato Fukagawa ◽  
Tomonori Yasuda ◽  
Takuya Yamashita ◽  
Kouji Kawabata ◽  
...  

AbstractTemporal structural changes of protoplanetary disks surrounding T Tauri stars (TTSs) can cause magnitude variations of TTSs. On the other hand, variability is also expected due to cool spots and/or hot spots on the surface of the star, thus it is important to distinguish the causes of the observed variability. Our sample consists of 23 TTSs (22 classical T Tauri stars, 1 weak-lined T Tauri star) and 4 Herbig Ae/Be stars. The observations were performed over a period of about 3 months in the V, J, and KS band, simultaneously. We detected variability for all stars in the three bands (>0.05 mag in V, >0.09 mag in J, >0.09 mag in KS). Color-magnitude relations obtained between V, J, and KS bands suggest that stellar spots are not the only cause of variability for most of our targets. In addition, the data implies that six stellar systems contain larger grains than in the interstellar medium if the variability is only caused by extinction due to circumstellar matter.


1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Montmerle

AbstractFor life to develop, planets are a necessary condition. Likewise, for planets to form, stars must be surrounded by circumstellar disks, at least some time during their pre-main sequence evolution. Much progress has been made recently in the study of young solar-like stars. In the optical domain, these stars are known as «T Tauri stars». A significant number show IR excess, and other phenomena indirectly suggesting the presence of circumstellar disks. The current wisdom is that there is an evolutionary sequence from protostars to T Tauri stars. This sequence is characterized by the initial presence of disks, with lifetimes ~ 1-10 Myr after the intial collapse of a dense envelope having given birth to a star. While they are present, about 30% of the disks have masses larger than the minimum solar nebula. Their disappearance may correspond to the growth of dust grains, followed by planetesimal and planet formation, but this is not yet demonstrated.


1998 ◽  
Vol 497 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andisheh Mahdavi ◽  
Scott J. Kenyon
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1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-424
Author(s):  
Motohide Tamura ◽  
Yoichi Itoh ◽  
Yumiko Oasa ◽  
Alan Tokunaga ◽  
Koji Sugitani

Abstract In order to tackle the problems of low-mass end of the initial mass function (IMF) in star-forming regions and the formation mechanisms of brown dwarfs, we have conducted deep infrared surveys of nearby molecular clouds. We have found a significant population of very low-luminosity sources with IR excesses in the Taurus cloud and the Chamaeleon cloud core regions whose extinction corrected J magnitudes are 3 to 8 mag fainter than those of typical T Tauri stars in the same cloud. Some of them are associated with even fainter companions. Follow-up IR spectroscopy has confirmed for the selected sources that their photospheric temperature is around 2000 to 3000 K. Thus, these very low-luminosity young stellar sources are most likely very low-mass T Tauri stars, and some of them might even be young brown dwarfs.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 574-574
Author(s):  
A.E. Gómez ◽  
S. Grenier ◽  
S. Udry ◽  
M. Haywood ◽  
V. Sabas ◽  
...  

Using Hipparcos parallaxes and proper motions together with radial velocity data and individual ages estimated from isochones, the velocity ellipsoid has been determined as a function of age. On the basis of the available kinematic data two different samples were considered: a first one (7789 stars) for which only tangential velocities were calculated and a second one containing 3104 stars with available U, V and W velocity components and total velocities ≤ 65 km.s-1. The main conclusions are: -Mixing is not complete at about 0.8-1 Gyr. -The shape of the velocity ellipsoid changes with time getting rounder from σu/σv/σ-w = 1/0.63/0.42 ± 0.04 at about 1 Gyr to1/0.7/0.62 ±0.04 at 4-5 Gyr. -The age-velocity-dispersion relation (from the sample with kinematical selection) rises to a maximum, thereafter remaining roughly constant; there is no dynamically significant evolution of the disk after about 4-5 Gyr. -Among the stars with solar metallicities and log(age) > 9.8 two groups are identified: one has typical thin disk characteristics, the other is older than 10 Gyr and lags the LSR at about 40 km.s-1 . -The variation of the tangential velocity with age(without selection on the tangential velocity) shows a discontinuity at about 10 Gyr, which may be attributed to stars typically of the thick disk populations for ages > 10 Gyr.


1991 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 353-356
Author(s):  
N. Ohashi ◽  
R. Kawabe ◽  
M. Hayashi ◽  
M. Ishiguro

The CS (J = 2 — 1) line and 98 GHz continuum emission have been observed for 11 protostellar IRAS sources in the Taurus molecular cloud with resolutions of 2.6″−8.8″ (360 AU—1200 AU) using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). The CS emission is detected only toward embedded sources, while the continuum emission from dust grains is detected only toward visible T Tauri stars except for one embedded source, L1551-IRS5. This suggests that the dust grains around the embedded sources do not centrally concentrate enough to be detected with our sensitivity (∼4 m Jy r.m.s), while dust grains in disks around the T Tauri stars have enough total mass to be detected with the NMA. The molecular cloud cores around the embedded sources are moderately extended and dense enough to be detected in CS, while gas disks around the T Tauri are not detected because the radius of such gas disks may be smaller than 70 (50 K/Tex) AU. These results imply that the total amount of matter within the NMA beam size must increase when the central objects evolve into T Tauri stars from embedded sources, suggesting that the compact and highly dense disks around T Tauri stars are formed by the dynamical mass accretion during the embedded protostar phase.


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