YSOVAR: Mid-infrared Variability of Young Stellar Objects and Their Disks in the Cluster IRAS 20050+2720
Abstract
We present a time-variability study of young stellar objects (YSOs) in the cluster IRAS 20050+2720, performed at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the Spitzer Space Telescope; this study is part of the Young Stellar Object VARiability (YSOVAR) project. We have collected light curves for 181 cluster members over 60 days. We find a high variability fraction among embedded cluster members of ca. 70%, whereas young stars without a detectable disk display variability less often (in ca. 50% of the cases) and with lower amplitudes. We detect periodic variability for 33 sources with periods primarily in the range of 2–6 days. Practically all embedded periodic sources display additional variability on top of their periodicity. Furthermore, we analyze the slopes of the tracks that our sources span in the color–magnitude diagram (CMD). We find that sources with long variability time scales tend to display CMD slopes that are at least partially influenced by accretion processes, while sources with short variability timescales tend to display extinction-dominated slopes. We find a tentative trend of X-ray detected cluster members to vary on longer timescales than the X-ray undetected members.
Additional Information
© 2015 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2015 April 30; accepted 2015 July 13; published 2015 September 22. The authors thank Joshua Bloom and Mike Skrutskie for access to the PAIRITEL telescope, and Elaine Winston for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work is based on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013). This research has made use of the SIMBAD database and the VizieR catalog access tool (Ochsenbein et al. 2000), both operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France and of data products from the 2MASS, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. K. P.'s work was supported in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. H. M. G. acknowledges Spitzer grant 1490851. P. P. acknowledges the JPL Research and Technology Development and Exoplanet Exploration programs. S. J. W. was supported by NASA contract NAS8-03060.Attached Files
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- NASA Sagan Fellowship
- 1490851
- Spitzer
- JPL Research and Technology Development Fund
- NAS8-03060
- NASA
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