Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1997
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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.328, p.187-202 (1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Formation, Pre-Main Sequence, Late Type, Rotation, Ism: Chamaeleon Clouds
Scientific paper
We present the results of a high-resolution spectroscopic study on some 70 stars, discovered recently on the basis of the ROSAT all-sky survey spread over a wide area in the Chamaeleon star forming region and classified as new weak-line T Tauri stars. We refine the previous spectral type classification, based on low-resolution spectra, and characterize each star in the sample according to the Hα line profile. We use the strength of Li I 6708, compared to Pleiades stars of the same spectral type, as a youth discriminator in order to recognize bona-fide pre-main sequence stars. According to the adopted ``lithium criterion'', more than 50% of the stars in our sample are confirmed to be truly young, PMS stars (most having age less than 5x 10(6) yr), while the remaining part seems mostly composed by active, young, foreground main-sequence stars (possibly Pleiades-like), which contaminate the original sample. We confirm the existence of some very young stars far from the main Chamaeleon clouds, while we do not find clear evidence for the presence of post-T Tauri stars in our sample. We find that 5 stars in the sample are spectroscopic binaries and 1 is a spectroscopic triple system. We derive radial and rotational velocities for all the stars in sample and analyse their distributions for different spectral type intervals. The radial velocity distribution shows a clear peak at about 15 km s(-1) , which coincides with the radial velocity of stars and gas in the Cha I cloud. However, the velocity dispersion of the weak-line T Tauri stars appears much broader and, possibly, a second peak is present around 16-18 km s(-1) . A clear segregation in radial velocity is observed between the strong-lithium and the weak-lithium stars, with the former showing radial velocities which, in most cases, fall in the interval 12
Alcal{á} Juan M.
Allain S. .
Bouvier Jerome
Covino Elvira
Krautter Joachim
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