Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-05-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings for "Open Issues in Local Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution", eds. J. Gr
Scientific paper
I discuss results from the recent spectroscopic survey for solar-type pre-MS stars in the Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC) and Upper Centaurus-Lupus (UCL) OB subgroups by Mamajek, Meyer, & Liebert (2002, AJ, 124, 1670). LCC and UCL are subgroups of the Sco-Cen OB association, and the two nearest OB subgroups to the Sun. In the entire survey of 110 pre-main sequence stars, there exists only one Classical T Tauri star (PDS 66), implying that only ~1% of ~1 Msun stars are still accreting at age 13$\pm$7 (1$\sigma$) Myr. Accounting for observational errors, the HRD placement of the pre-MS stars is consistent with the bulk of star-formation taking place within 5-10 Myr. In this contribution, I estimate conservative upper limits to the intrinsic velocity dispersions of the post-T Tauri stars in the LCC and UCL subgroups (<1.6 km/s and <2.2 km/s, respectively; 95% CL) using Monte-Carlo simulations of Tycho-2 proper motions for candidate subgroup members. I also demonstrate that a new OB subgroup recently proposed to exist in Chamaeleon probably does not.
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