Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-11-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:200810623
This work presents the determination of the effective temperature, gravity, metallicity, mass, luminosity and age of 27 young early-type stars, most of them in the age range 1-10 Myr, and three -suspected- hot companions of post-T Tauri stars belonging to the Lindroos binary sample. Most of these objects show IR excesses in their spectral energy distributions, which are indicative of the presence of disks. The work is relevant in the fields of stellar physics, physics of disks and formation of planetary systems. Spectral energy distributions and mid-resolution spectra were used to estimate the effective temperature. The comparison of the profiles of the Balmer lines with synthetic profiles provides the value of the stellar gravity. High-resolution optical observations and synthetic spectra are used to estimate the metallicity, [M/H]. Once these three parameters are known for each star, evolutionary tracks and isochrones provide estimations of the mass, luminosity, age and distance (or upper limits in some cases). The method is original in the sense that it is distance-independent, i.e. the estimation of the stellar parameters does not require, as it happens in other works, the knowledge of the distance to the object. A detailed discussion on some individual objects, in particular VV Ser, RR Tau, 49 Cet and the three suspected hot companions of post-T Tauris, is presented. The paper also shows the difficulty posed by the morphology and behaviour of the system star+disk in the computation of the stellar parameters.
Eiroa Carlos
Merín Bruno
Montesinos Benjamin
Mora Alcione
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