X-Rays Surveys and the Post-T Tauri Problem

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Feb 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aj....113..740b&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal v.113, p. 740-752 (1997)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

108

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Recent studies using the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) towards nearby star-forming regions have identified a widely dispersed population of X-ray active stars, and have suggested that these objects are older pre-main sequence stars (post-T Tauri stars) located far from molecular clouds. We argue that the majority of these stars are not pre-main sequence stars, but young main sequence stars of ages up to ~ 10(8) \> yr. A simple model assuming continuing star formation over the past 10(8) \> yr quantitatively reproduces the number, surface density, X-ray emission, and optical properties of the RASS sources. Most of these stars are old enough to have dispersed far from their birth sites in molecular clouds, producing a relatively homogeneous spatial distribution of X-ray sources near the galactic plane. We conclude that the RASS results yield little evidence for a post-T Tauri population. We emphasize the importance of recognizing this wide-spread spatial distribution of 10(8\>) yr stars in searches for possible older weak-emission T Tauri stars among X-ray selected samples in nearby star-forming regions.

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