CSI 2264: CHARACTERIZING YOUNG STARS IN NGC 2264 WITH STOCHASTICALLY VARYING LIGHT CURVES

• Published in: The Astronomical journal Vol. 151; no. 3; p. 60
• Main Authors: Stauffer, John, Cody, Ann Marie, Rebull, Luisa, Hillenbrand, Lynne A., Turner, Neal J., Carpenter, John, Carey, Sean, Terebey, Susan, Morales-Calderón, María, Alencar, Silvia H. P., McGinnis, Pauline, Sousa, Alana, Bouvier, Jerome, Venuti, Laura, Hartmann, Lee, Calvet, Nuria, Micela, Giusi, Flaccomio, Ettore, Song, Inseok, Gutermuth, Rob, Barrado, David, Vrba, Frederick J., Covey, Kevin, Herbst, William, Gillen, Edward, Guimarães, Marcelo Medeiros, Bouy, Herve, Favata, Fabio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Astronomical Society 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Accretion; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; Bursting; DIAGRAMS; HOT SPOTS; Light curve; MASS; Mathematical models; MORPHOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHOTOSPHERE; PROTOSTARS; RANDOMNESS; Sciences of the Universe; STAR ACCRETION; Stars; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; Stochasticity; T TAURI STARS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRANSIENTS; VISIBLE RADIATION; stars: pre-main sequence; stars: protostars; circumstellar matter; open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 2264; Herbig Ae/Be; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; stars: variables: T Tauri

We provide CoRoT and Spitzer light curves and other supporting data for 17 classical T Tauri stars in NGC 2264 whose CoRoT light curves exemplify the “stochastic” light curve class as defined in 2014 by Cody et al. The most probable physical mechanism to explain the optical variability within this l...