Photoelectric observations of moderate to rapidly rotating pre-main-sequence stars in the Orion nebula cluster

1990 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle F. Walker
2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 3537-3552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keivan G. Stassun ◽  
David R. Ardila ◽  
Mary Barsony ◽  
Gibor Basri ◽  
Robert D. Mathieu

1999 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 2941-2979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keivan G. Stassun ◽  
Robert D. Mathieu ◽  
Tsevi Mazeh ◽  
Frederick J. Vrba

1978 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 215-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Peimbert

PN can be divided into four types depending on their chemical composition. In order of decreasing heavy element abundances the types are: I) He and N rich, II) intermediate population, III) high velocity, and IV) halo population. The type II PN are overabundant in N and C relative to the Orion Nebula. Well defined gradients across the galactic disk of He, N and O are derived from type II PN; the oxygen gradient is similar to the metallicity gradient derived from GK giants and F main sequence stars. By comparing the O, Ne and S abundances of PN of types III and IV with the Fe abundances of stars of similar population it is found that the O, Ne and S enrichment in the Galaxy probably took place before the Fe enrichment.


2004 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 211-222
Author(s):  
Eric D. Feigelson

I review here recent advances in our understanding of magnetic activity in pre-main sequence (PMS) protostars and T Tauri stars. Results are based on recent imaging, spectroscopic and temporal studies of nearby star forming regions from the Chandra X — ray Observatory and XMM — Newton, including a first look at an ultradeep Chandra exposure of the Orion Nebula Cluster.Pre-main sequence stars exhibit a high level of X-ray emission dominated by a bewildering variety of magnetic reconnection flares. Activity is linked to bulk stellar properties — Lbol, mass, surface area or volume — rather than rotation. This suggests that dynamo processes in deeply convective PMS stars may fundamentally differ from the tachocline dynamo operating in main sequence stars.X-rays and MeV particles from magnetic flares will affect the circumstellar environment in PMS systems, particularly the protoplanetary disk. X-ray emission may influence: disk ionization, turbulence and viscosity; Jovian planet formation and migration; the production of meteoritic isotopes and melting of meteoritic chondrules; the heating and chemistry of the disk. X-ray surveys are also effective in locating post-T Tauri stars for disk evolution studies.


1997 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
C. R. O'Dell

The Orion Nebula Region has two different systems of objects classified as HH objects. The North System is associated with the H2 fingers seen in the infrared and is probably the result of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in shocked material moving into the near side of the giant molecular cloud OMC-1. The South System is associated with source(s) within the Trapezium cluster, with the shocked HH objects occuring where jets from pre-main sequence stars impinge on the neutral lid of material that lies across the front of the Orion Nebula. Such jets are different from those driving other HH objects in that these are passing through photoionized material and two of the Orion jets may have been detected.


2003 ◽  
Vol 584 (2) ◽  
pp. 911-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Feigelson ◽  
James A. Gaffney III ◽  
Gordon Garmire ◽  
Lynne A. Hillenbrand ◽  
Leisa Townsley

2019 ◽  
Vol 487 (3) ◽  
pp. 2977-3000 ◽  
Author(s):  
K V Getman ◽  
E D Feigelson ◽  
M A Kuhn ◽  
G P Garmire

ABSTRACT This work extends previous kinematic studies of young stars in the head of the Orion A cloud (OMC-1/2/3/4/5). It is based on large samples of infrared, optical, and X-ray selected pre-main-sequence stars with reliable radial velocities and Gaia-derived parallaxes and proper motions. Stellar kinematic groups are identified assuming they mimic the motion of their parental gas. Several groups are found to have peculiar kinematics: the NGC 1977 cluster and two stellar groups in the extended Orion nebula (EON) cavity are caught in the act of departing their birthplaces. The abnormal motion of NGC 1977 may have been caused by a global hierarchical cloud collapse, feedback by massive Ori OB1ab stars, supersonic turbulence, cloud–cloud collision, and/or slingshot effect; the former two models are favoured by us. EON groups might have inherited anomalous motions of their parental cloudlets due to small-scale ‘rocket effects’ from nearby OB stars. We also identify sparse stellar groups to the east and west of Orion A that are drifting from the central region, possibly a slowly expanding halo of the Orion nebula cluster. We confirm previously reported findings of varying line-of-sight distances to different parts of the cloud’s Head with associated differences in gas velocity. 3D movies of star kinematics show contraction of the groups of stars in OMC-1 and global contraction of OMC-123 stars. Overall, the head of Orion A region exhibits complex motions consistent with theoretical models involving hierarchical gravitational collapse in (possibly turbulent) clouds with OB stellar feedback.


2001 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 3258-3279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Rhode ◽  
William Herbst ◽  
Robert D. Mathieu

1970 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
George R. Carruthers

Photometric data in the 1050–1180 Å and 1230–1350 Å wavelength ranges, and electronographic spectra in the 1000–1600 Å wavelength range, were obtained in an Aerobee rocket flight on January 30, 1969. The spectral intensities derived from these data for main-sequence stars are in good agreement with the model atmospheres of Morton and co-workers. Giant and supergiant stars, however, appear to be up to one magnitude weaker, at 1115 Å, than main-sequence stars of the same spectral class.The correction for interstellar reddening appears to be not inconsistent with a 1/λ extrapolation of earlier determinations of Smith (1967) and Stecher (1965), except in the case of θ Ori, in which the predicted color excess appears to be much too great, confirming the existence of a peculiar reddening law in the Orion Nebula region.


1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
O. C. Wilson ◽  
A. Skumanich

Evidence previously presented by one of the authors (1) suggests strongly that chromospheric activity decreases with age in main sequence stars. This tentative conclusion rests principally upon a comparison of the members of large clusters (Hyades, Praesepe, Pleiades) with non-cluster objects in the general field, including the Sun. It is at least conceivable, however, that cluster and non-cluster stars might differ in some fundamental fashion which could influence the degree of chromospheric activity, and that the observed differences in chromospheric activity would then be attributable to the circumstances of stellar origin rather than to age.


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