YSOVAR: MID-INFRARED VARIABILITY OF YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND THEIR DISKS IN THE CLUSTER IRAS 20050+2720
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Poppenhaeger, K.; Cody, A. M.; Covey, K. R.; Hillenbrand, L. A.; Plavchan, P.; Rebull, L. M.; Stauffer, J. R.; Wolk, S. J.; Espaillat, C.; Forbrich, J.; Gutermuth, R. A.; Hora, J. L.; Song, Inseok; Guenther, Hans Moritz; Morales-Calderon, M.; ... Show more Show less
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We present a time-variability study of young stellar objects (YSOs) in the cluster IRAS 20050+2720, performed at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the Spitzer Space Telescope; this study is part of the Young Stellar Object VARiability (YSOVAR) project. We have collected light curves for 181 cluster members over 60 days. We find a high variability fraction among embedded cluster members of ca. 70%, whereas young stars without a detectable disk display variability less often (in ca. 50% of the cases) and with lower amplitudes. We detect periodic variability for 33 sources with periods primarily in the range of 2–6 days. Practically all embedded periodic sources display additional variability on top of their periodicity. Furthermore, we analyze the slopes of the tracks that our sources span in the color–magnitude diagram (CMD). We find that sources with long variability time scales tend to display CMD slopes that are at least partially influenced by accretion processes, while sources with short variability timescales tend to display extinction-dominated slopes. We find a tentative trend of X-ray detected cluster members to vary on longer timescales than the X-ray undetected members.
Date issued
2015-09Department
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
The Astronomical Journal
Publisher
IOP Publishing
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Poppenhaeger, K., A. M. Cody, K. R. Covey, H. M. Gunther, L. A. Hillenbrand, P. Plavchan, L. M. Rebull, et al. “YSOVAR: MID-INFRARED VARIABILITY OF YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND THEIR DISKS IN THE CLUSTER IRAS 20050+2720.” The Astronomical Journal 150, no. 4 (September 22, 2015): 118. © 2015 The American Astronomical Society
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1538-3881
0004-6256