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光度变化对年轻天体年龄和质量测定的影响:猎户座星云团的个例研究

Impact of photometric variability on age and mass determination of Young Stellar Objects: A case study on Orion Nebula Cluster

Sergio Messina, Padmakar S. Parihar, Elisa Distefano

摘要:

对于主序前天体,确定年龄和质量的唯一方法是在色-星等(或者光度-温度)图上拟合理论等时线。由于年轻的恒星天体在很大的星等和颜色范围内表现出光度变化,因此通过拟合等时线确定的年龄和质量即使不是错误的,也是不准确的。这些反过来又会严重影响任何关于年龄分布和恒星形成过程的研究。由于我们已经对猎户座星云团(ONC)进行了非常广泛的光度观测,我们决定使用我们的多波段数据来探索变化对确定星团成员质量和年龄的影响。在这项研究中,我们得到了346个ONC成员样本的V,R和I光带的光度变化幅度,并用它来研究这种变化如何影响推断的质量和年龄,以及它是否可以单独考虑早期研究报告的ONC成员之间的年龄分布。我们发现,成员表现出周期性和平滑的光度旋转调制的质量和年龄不受变化。另一方面,我们发现,成员与周期性的,但非常分散的光度旋转调制和成员与不规则的变化,他们的质量和年龄显着影响。此外,使用Hertzsprung-Russell(HR)图,我们发现,所观察到的I波段光度变化可以考虑到只有一小部分(约50%)的推断年龄的蔓延,而V波段光度变化是大到足以掩盖任何年龄蔓延。

英文摘要:

In case of pre-main sequence objects, the only way to determine age and mass is by fitting theoretical isochrones on color-magnitude (alternatively luminosity-temperature) diagrams. Since young stellar objects exhibit photometric variability over wide range in magnitude and colors, the age and mass determined by fitting isochrones is expected to be inaccurate, if not erroneous. These in turn will badly affect any study carried out on age spread and process of star formation. Since we have carried out very extensive photometric observations of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), we decided to use our multi-band data to explore the influence of variability in determining mass and age of cluster members. In this study, we get the amplitudes of the photometric variability in V, R, and I optical bands of a sample of 346 ONC members and use it to investigate how the variability affects the inferred masses and ages and if it alone can take account for the age spread among the ONC members reported by earlier studies. We find that members that show periodic and smooth photometric rotational modulation have their masses and ages unaffected by variability. On other hand, we found that members with periodic but very scattered photometric rotational modulation and members with irregular variability have their masses and ages significantly affected. Moreover, using Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagrams we find that the observed I band photometric variability can take account of only a fraction (about 50%) of the inferred age spread, whereas the V band photometric variability is large enough to mask any age spread.

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