SIWAK, Michal, Lynne A HILLENBRAND, Agnes KOSPAL, Peter ABRAHAM, Teresa GIANNINI, Kishalay DE, Attila MOOR, Mate SZILAGYI, Jan JANÍK, Chris KOEN, Sunkyung PARK, Zsofia NAGY, de Miera Fernando CRUZ-SAENZ, Eleonora FIORELLINO, Gabor MARTON, Maria KUN, Philip W LUCAS, Andrzej UDALSKI and Zsofia Marianna SZABO. Gaia21bty: An EXor light curve exhibiting a FUor spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2023, vol. 524, No 4, p. 5548-5565. ISSN 0035-8711. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2135.
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Original name Gaia21bty: An EXor light curve exhibiting a FUor spectrum
Authors SIWAK, Michal (616 Poland), Lynne A HILLENBRAND, Agnes KOSPAL, Peter ABRAHAM, Teresa GIANNINI, Kishalay DE, Attila MOOR, Mate SZILAGYI, Jan JANÍK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Chris KOEN, Sunkyung PARK, Zsofia NAGY, de Miera Fernando CRUZ-SAENZ, Eleonora FIORELLINO, Gabor MARTON, Maria KUN, Philip W LUCAS, Andrzej UDALSKI and Zsofia Marianna SZABO.
Edition Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press, 2023, 0035-8711.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10308 Astronomy
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.800 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00131685
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2135
UT WoS 001048593700007
Keywords in English accretion; accretion discs; stars: formation; stars: pre-main-sequence; stars: variables: T Tauri; Herbig Ae/Be
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 26/9/2023 15:59.
Abstract
Gaia21bty, a pre-main-sequence star that previously had shown aperiodic dips in its light curve, underwent a considerable Delta G approximate to 2.9 mag brightening that occurred over a few months between 2020 October and 2021 February. The Gaia light curve shows that the star remained near maximum brightness for about 4-6 months, and then started slowly fading over the next 2 yr, with at least three superimposed similar to 1 mag sudden rebrightening events. Whereas the amplitude and duration of the maximum is typical for EX Lupi-type stars, optical and near-infrared spectra obtained at the maximum are dominated by features which are typical for FU Ori-type stars (FUors). Modelling of the accretion disc at the maximum indicates that the disc bolometric luminosity is 43 L-circle dot and the mass accretion rate is 2.5 x 10(-5) M-circle dot yr(-1), which are typical values for FUors even considering the large uncertainty in the distance (1.7(-0.4)(+0.8) kpc). Further monitoring is necessary to understand the cause of the quick brightness decline, the rebrightening, and the other post-outburst light changes, as our multicolour photometric data suggest that they could be caused by a long and discontinuous obscuration event. We speculate that the outburst might have induced large-scale inhomogeneous dust condensations in the line of sight leading to such phenomena, whilst the FUor outburst continues behind the opaque screen.
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