Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-03-21
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1441
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04541.x
We present new high and low resolution spectroscopic and photometric data of nine members of the young association CMa R1. All the stars have circumstellar dust at some distance as could be expected from their association with reflection nebulosity. Four stars (HD 52721, HD 53367, LkHalpha 220 and LkHalpha 218) show Halpha emission and we argue that they are Herbig Be stars with discs. Our photometric and spectroscopic observations on these stars reveal new characteristics of their variability. We present first interpretations of the variability of HD 52721, HD 53367 and the two LkHalpha stars in terms of a partially eclipsing binary, a magnetic activity cycle and circumstellar dust variations, respectively. The remaining five stars show no clear indications of Halpha emission in their spectra, although their spectral types and ages are comparable with those of HD 52721 and HD 53367. This indicates that the presence of a disc around a star in CMa R1 may depend on the environment of the star. In particular we find that all Halpha emission stars are located at or outside the arc-shaped border of the H II region, which suggests that the stars inside the arc have lost their discs through evaporation by UV photons from nearby O stars, or from the nearby (< 25 pc) supernova, about 1 Myr ago.
Blondel P. F. C.
de Winter Dolf
Ezhkova O. V.
Grankin Konstantin N.
Shevchenko Sergey. V.
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