A Large Area Variability Survey in Orion OB1: digging into the fossil record of low-mass star formation

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Star Formation, Young Stars, Variability, Photometry

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In an area of ˜ 25 ° we have unveiled new populations of low-mass young stars, from young (˜ 2 Myr) regions in dense molecular clouds like Orion OB 1b, to older (˜ 10 Myr) areas devoid of gas and dust like the sparse OB 1a subassociation. The newly identified young stars are spatially coincident with the high mass O, B and A stars, indicating that little, if any, mass segregation has occured. The absence of dust and gas in Ori OB 1a suggests that star formation is a rapid process, and that molecular clouds do not last more than a few million years after the first stars are born. The lack of accretion indicators or near IR emission from inner dusty disks in Ori OB 1a region suggests that significant disk dissipation has occured in a few Myr, possibly due to the coagulation/agglomeration of dust particles into larger bodies like planetesimals or planets.

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