We report the discovery of the oldest (~55 Myr) mid-M type star known to host on-going accretion. 2MASS J15460752-6258042 (2M1546, spectral type M5, 59.2 pc) shows spectroscopic signs of accretion such as strong Ha, He I, and [O I] emission lines, from which we estimate an accretion rate of ~10^-10 Msun/yr. Considering the clearly detected infrared excess in all WISE bands, the shape of its spectral energy distribution and its age, we believe the star is surrounded by a transitional disc, clearly with some gas still present at inner radii. The position and kinematics of the star from Gaia DR2 and our own radial velocity measurements suggest membership in the nearby ~55 Myr-old Argus moving group. At only 59pc from Earth, 2M1546 is one of the nearest accreting mid-M dwarfs, making it an ideal target for studying the upper limit on the lifetimes of gas-rich discs around low mass stars.
To fully characterize the atmospheres, or lack thereof, of terrestrial exoplanets we must include the high-energy environments provided by their host stars. The nearby mid-M dwarf LHS 3844 hosts a terrestrial world which lacks a substantial atmosphere. We present a time series UV spectrum of LHS 3844 from 1131-3215A captured by HST/COS. We detect one flare in the FUV, which has an absolute energy of 8.96+/-0.79e28 erg and an equivalent duration of 355+/-31 s. We extract the flare and quiescent UV spectra separately. For each spectrum we estimate the Ly-alpha flux using correlations between UV …
A prolonged plateau-to-tail transition in the Type II supernova SN2025abyc
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院云南天文台）；International Centre of Supernovae (ICESUN), Yunnan Key Laboratory of Supernova Research（超新星国际研究中心（ICESUN），云南省超新星研究重点实验室）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
In this paper we present new ALMA observations towards the proto-planet hosting transitional disc of Herbig Ae/Be star HD 100546. This includes resolved 1.3 mm continuum, $^{13}$CO and the first detection of C$^{18}$O in this disc, which displays azimuthal asymmetry in regions spatially coincident with structures previously identified in HST images related to spiral arms. The lower limit on the mass of the dust disc is calculated to be 9.6x10$^{-4}$M$_\odot$. A firm lower-limit on the total gas mass calculated from optically thin, mid-plane tracing C$^{18}$O (2-1) emission is 0.018M$_\odot$ as…
Variable X-ray Emission of the Planet Hosting T Tauri Star CI Tau
Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA（科罗拉多大学波尔德分校天体物理学与空间天文中心）；Dept. of Astrophysics, Univ. of Vienna, Türkenschanzstr. 17, A-1180 Vienna, Austria（维也纳大学天体物理系）
One of the most fundamental topics of exobiology concerns the identification of stars with environments consistent with life. Although it is believed that most types of main-sequence stars might be able to support life, particularly extremophiles, special requirements appear to be necessary for the development and sustainability of advanced life forms. From our study, orange main-sequence stars, ranging from spectral type late-G to mid-K (with a maximum at early-K), are most promising. Our analysis considers a variety of aspects, including (1) the frequency of the various types of stars, (2) t…
Debris disk stars are good targets for high contrast imaging searches for planetary systems, since debris disks have been shown to have a tentative correlation with giant planets. We selected 20 stars identified as debris disk hosts by the WSIE mission, with particularly high levels of warm dust. We observed these with the VLT/SPHERE high contrast imaging instrument with the goal of finding planets and imaging the disks in scattered light. Our survey reaches a median 5$σ$~sensitivity of 10.4Mj at 25au and 5.9Mj at 100au. We identified three new stellar companions (HD18378B, HD19257B and HD1337…
Ground- and space-based planet searches employing radial velocity techniques and transit photometry have detected thousands of planet-hosting stars in the Milky Way. The chemistry of these atmospheres is controlled by the shape and absolute flux of the stellar spectral energy distribution, however, flux distributions of relatively inactive low-mass stars are poorly known at present. To better understand exoplanets orbiting low-mass stars, we have executed a panchromatic (X-ray to mid-IR) study of the spectral energy distributions of 11 nearby planet hosting stars, the {\it Measurements of the …
New members of the TW Hydrae Association and two accreting M-dwarfs in Scorpius-Centaurus
我们报告了在寻找30-40万年前的Octans协会新成员时发现的几颗年轻的中M星的偶然发现。只有一颗恒星可能被认为是Octans（近）成员。然而，这两颗恒星的自行、运动学距离、径向速度、测光和Li I 6708 AA的测量结果与800万至1000万年前的长蛇座TW星协成员一致。另一个可能是长蛇座TW的外围成员，但其速度与Octans成员的预测相似。我们还确定了邻近的天蝎座-半人马座OB协会（Sco-Cen）的两个新的富锂成员。两者都表现出大的12和22微米的过剩和强大的，可变的H-α发射，我们归因于吸积从拱盘。这样的恒星被认为在Sco-Cen的1600万年中位年龄是非常罕见的，它们只加入了上天蝎座之外的一个其他确认的M型和三个更高质量的吸积物。偶然发现的两颗吸积恒星承载着大量的星周物质，可能表明斯科-岑的年龄分布相当大，或者进一步证明在低质量恒星周围，圆盘分散和行星形成的时间尺度更长。为了帮助未来的研究Sco-Cen，我们还提供了一个新编制的目录305早期型依巴谷成员的光谱径向速度来源于文献。
The field of the globular cluster M22 (NGC 6656) was monitored between 2000 and 2008 in a search for variable stars. $BV$ light curves were obtained for 359 periodic, likely periodic, and long-term variables, 238 of which are new detections. Thirty nine newly detected variables, and 63 previously known ones are members or likely members of the cluster, including 20 SX Phe, 10 RRab and 16 RRc-type pulsators, one BL Her-type pulsator, 21 contact binaries, and 9 detached or semi-detached eclipsing binaries. The most interesting among the identified objects are V112 - a bright multimode SX Phe pul…
