Can complex T Tauri star light curves be modelled with star-spots?

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 1366-1379
Author(s):  
C Koen
Keyword(s):  
Ridge Regression ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Stellar Surface ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
T Tauri ◽  
Almost All

ABSTRACT ‘Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite’ photometry of 10 young stars with very complex periodic light curves is considered. Previous findings that these cannot be due to dark surface spots are re-evaluated by allowing arbitrarily shaped areas on the stellar surface to have sub-photospheric fluxes. This is done by approximating flux integrals by sums over surface elements. The unknown ratios of spot to photospheric fluxes are determined by lasso or ridge regression procedures. It is found that almost all light curves can be modelled very accurately in this way. The usual, if rarely stated, caveat applies – star-spot models presented in the paper are not unique.

scholarly journals Properties of CVSO 30 from TESS measurements: probably a binary T Tauri star with complex light curves and no obvious planets

2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (3) ◽  
pp. 4349-4356
Author(s):  
C Koen
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
Small Group ◽  
T Tauri Stars ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
Curve Shape ◽  
T Tauri

ABSTRACT ‘Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite’ (TESS) photometry of CVSO 30 spanned 21.8 d, with a single large gap of 1.1 d. This allows alias-free determination of the two periodicities in the data. It is confirmed that both of these are non-sinusoidal: the dominant P1 = 0.4990 d has two detectable harmonics and P2 = 0.4486 d has seven. The large number of harmonics in the second periodicity characterizes a very complex light curve shape. One of the features in the light curve is a sharp dip of duration ∼2 h: this is probably the source of the previously claimed planetary transit signature. The star is a member of a small group of T Tauri stars with complex light curves, which have recently been exhaustively studied using Kepler and TESS observations. The two non-commensurate periods are most simply interpreted as being from two stars, i.e. CVSO 30 is probably a binary.

scholarly journals The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars – VIII. ‘Dipper’ stars in the Lupus star-forming region

2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (3) ◽  
pp. 3257-3269 ◽  
Author(s):  
J W Bredall ◽  
B J Shappee ◽  
E Gaidos ◽  
T Jayasinghe ◽  
P Vallely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Main Sequence ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Young Stellar Objects ◽  
Circumstellar Dust ◽  
Stellar Objects ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
T Tauri

ABSTRACT Some young stellar objects such as T Tauri-like ‘dipper’ stars vary due to transient partial occultation by circumstellar dust, and observations of this phenomenon inform us of conditions in the planet-forming zones close to these stars. Although many dipper stars have been identified with space missions such as Kepler/K2, ground-based telescopes offer longer term and multiwavelength perspectives. We identified 11 dipper stars in the Lupus star-forming region in data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN), and further characterized these using observations by the Las Cumbres Global Observatory Telescope (LCOGT) and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), as well as archival data from other missions. Dipper stars were identified from a catalogue of nearby young stars and selected based on the statistical significance, asymmetry, and quasi-periodicity or aperiodicity of variability in their ASAS-SN light curves. All 11 stars lie above or redwards of the zero-age main sequence and have infrared (IR) excesses indicating the presence of full circumstellar discs. We obtain reddening–extinction relations for the variability of seven stars using our combined ASAS-SN-TESS and LCOGT photometry. In all cases, the slopes are below the ISM value, suggesting larger grains, and we find a tentative relation between the slope (grain size) and the $K_\text{s}-[22 \, \mu \text{m}]$ IR colour regarded as a proxy for disc evolutionary state.

scholarly journals Primeval Jets from Young Stars

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 241-242
Author(s):  
T. P. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Class Ii ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Stellar Object ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
Young Stellar Object ◽  
T Tauri ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe jet phenomenon lasts at least a million years for young, solar-like, stars and it occurs during a wide variety of young stellar object (YSO) phases. This includes the period when the source is highly embedded (Class 0) to when it becomes optically visible for the first time as a classical T Tauri star (Class II). Here I briefly discuss some of the properties of jets from the youngest objects.

scholarly journals Actvity on T Tauri Stars

1995 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 221-222
Author(s):  
Erik Gullbring ◽  
Gösia F. Gahm ◽  
Heinz Barwig ◽  
Peicheng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
High Speed ◽  
T Tauri Stars ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
Emission Lines ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Short Term ◽  
T Tauri ◽  
Short Term Variability

We have made a detailed investigation of the short-term variability of the classical T Tauri star BP Tauri in UBVRI. Data were collected from the Wendelstein Observatory in 1991, 1992 and 1993 with time resolutions down to 1 sec. The 0.8m telescope was equipped with a fiber-fed fifteen channel high-speed photometer (Barwig et al. 1987). Observations (in UBV) were also collected in China at the Yunnan and Shanghai Observatories to get a long base line in time. To search for differences in the properties between the brightness variations of classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) and T Tauri stars with weak emission lines (WTTS) we performed simultaneous photometry (in the UBV and Strömgren systems) and spectroscopy of 6 young stars during two observing periods at ESO La Silla. The study concerned mainly short-term variability on time-scales of minutes to a few hours. The sample contained two CTTS, SY Ori and VW Cha; three WTTS, San 1, SZ Cha and ADA 481 and one post-T Tauri candidate, HD 70309B.

scholarly journals The Observational Evidence for Accretion

1997 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 391-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Large Range ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Young Stellar Objects ◽  
Stellar Objects ◽  
T Tauri ◽  
Accretion Rates ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Stellar Magnetospheres ◽  
Mass Ejection

Outflows from low-mass young stellar objects are thought to draw upon the energy released by accretion onto T Tauri stars. I briefly summarize the evidence for this accretion and outline present estimates of mass accretion rates. Young stars show a very large range of accretion rates, and this has important implications for both mass ejection and for the structure of stellar magnetospheres which may truncate T Tauri disks.

scholarly journals Probing Signatures of a Distant Planet around the Young T-Tauri Star CI Tau Hosting a Possible Hot Jupiter

2018 ◽  
Vol 859 (2) ◽  
pp. L28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihoko Konishi ◽  
Jun Hashimoto ◽  
Yasunori Hori
Keyword(s):  
Tauri Star ◽  
T Tauri ◽  
Hot Jupiter

scholarly journals Variability of young stars: Determination of rotational periods of weak-line T Tauri stars in the Cepheus-Cassiopeia star-forming region

2009 ◽  
Vol 330 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-492
Author(s):  
A. Koeltzsch ◽  
M. Mugrauer ◽  
St. Raetz ◽  
T.O.B. Schmidt ◽  
T. Roell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
T Tauri Stars ◽  
Young Stars ◽  
Weak Line ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
T Tauri
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