Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aj....112.2168s&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Journal v.112, p.2168
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
48
Infrared: Stars, Accretion, Stars: Pre-Main Sequence
Scientific paper
This paper reports infrared JHK photometry of 15 young stellar objects sampled at intervals of a few days to a few weeks during the winters of 1991 and 1992. Accretion luminosity dominates the near-infrared flux of most of the sources. Observed variations ranged between one tenth to one full magnitude during the monitoring period and were well correlated at all three wavelengths. Variations by individual sources in the (H- K) vs (J- H) color-color diagram indicate that such changes can be explained by some combination of variable extinction of the stellar photosphere and changes in the accretion properties of the sources. The amplitude of K-band source variability is weakly correlated with (K- L) excess, which is a reliable accretion diagnostic. Included are near-infrared light curves for V410 Tau, a rapidly-rotating, heavily-spotted weak-emission T Tauri star as a demonstration of the accuracy and consistency of the photometric measurements (typically 2%-4%) and for comparison with the extensive body of existing visible-wavelength observations.
Hamilton Craig
Meyer Michael R.
Skrutskie Michael F.
Whalen Daniel
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