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Near-ultraviolet Excess in Slowly Accreting T Tauri Stars: Limits Imposed by Chromospheric Emission

  • Authors: Laura Ingleby, Nuria Calvet, Edwin Bergin, Gregory Herczeg, Alexander Brown, Richard Alexander, Suzan Edwards, Catherine Espaillat, Kevin France, Scott G. Gregory, Lynne Hillenbrand, Evelyne Roueff, Jeff Valenti, Frederick Walter, Christopher Johns-Krull, Joanna Brown, Jeffrey Linsky, Melissa McClure, David Ardila, Hervé Abgrall, Thomas Bethell, Gaitee Hussain, and Hao Yang

Ingleby et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 743 105.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Accretion indicators. In each panel the black solid line shows the line profile of the CTTS, RECX-11, and the red dashed line shows the WTTS, RECX-1. (a) [O i]. The [O i] λ6300 line probes wind emission in T Tauri stars. Weak [O i] emission appears to be present in RECX-11 in excess over the WTTS but the detection is <3σ. If [O i] were present, it would be additional support for accretion in RECX-11. (b) Ca ii. The Ca ii λ8542 shows an emission core on the photospheric absorption line. At low , this line is dominated by chromospheric emission and cannot be used to measure accretion rates, as shown by the identical profiles of RECX-1 and RECX-11.

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