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Flares in T Tauri Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Gösta F. Gahm
Gösta F. Gahm*
Affiliation:
Stockholm Observatory, S-133 36 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden

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This review concerns rapid variability, on time-scales of a few hours or less, occurring on T Tauri stars (TTS). There are several recent reviews on observed properties of TTS (e.g. Appenzeller & Mundt 1989, Bertout 1989, Gahm 1990a, Kuhi & Cram 1989), some with more emphasis on “flare-like” activity (Feigelson et al. 1991, Gahm 1990b, Montmerle 1991, Montmerle et al. 1993), and the ambition below has been to summarize more recent work. We will also give a compilation of published works on observations of optical variability on these time-scales and a related statistical overview. Some early, very interesting and extensive studies of this kind were made here at the Sonneberg Observatory, where for instance Götz & Wenzel (1967) concluded that the light-curve of RW Aurigae contains several components: quasi-periodic fluctuations over days, ‘waves’ over several hours, rapid outbursts with symmetric light-curves, rapid outbursts with asymmetric (flare-like) light-curves (see also Fürtig & Wenzel 1964) and small fluctuations with very small amplitudes, which they postulated could be due to changes in the emission line fluxes. Modern photometric results of higher sensitivity and time-resolution confirm the existence of these different types of rapid variations in classical TTS (CTTS), having strong emission (lines and continuous, so called veiling) superimposed on the photospheric absorption line spectrum. As described in the subsequent chapters there are new concepts for the interpretation of the short-lived fluctuations. Concerning the long-term quasi-periodic variations we can now usually relate them to the stellar rotational period (bright or dark spots), let be that RW Aur still is an uncertain case. There are other slow changes most likely related to variable circumstellar extinction in circumstellar dust in the line-of-sight to the star. The long-term optical changes were most recently discussed by Herbst et al. (1994).

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Flares in T Tauri Stars
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 202 - 211
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Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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