KMOS study of the mass accretion rate from Class I to Class II in NGC 1333

Abstract

The mass accretion rate is the fundamental parameter to understand the process of mass assembly that results in the formation of a low-mass star. This parameter has been largely studied in Classical TTauri stars in star-forming regions with ages of 1-10Myr. However, little is known about the accretion properties of young stellar objects (YSOs) in younger regions and early stages of star formation, such as in the Class0/I phases. We present new NIR spectra of 17 ClassI/Flat and 35 ClassII sources located in the young (<1Myr) NGC1333 cluster, acquired with the KMOS instrument at the VLT. Our goal is to study whether the mass accretion rate evolves with age, as suggested by the widely adopted viscous evolution model, by comparing the properties of the NGC1333 members with samples of older regions. We measured the stellar parameters and accretion rates of our sample, finding a correlation between accretion and stellar luminosity, and between mass accretion rate and stellar mass. Both correlations are compatible within the errors with the older Lupus star-forming region, while only the latter is consistent with results from ChamaeleonI. The ClassI sample shows larger accretion luminosities with respect to the ClassII stars of the same cloud. However, the derived accretion rates are not sufficiently high to build up the inferred stellar masses, assuming steady accretion during the ClassI lifetime. This suggests that the sources are not in their main accretion phase and that most of their mass has already been accumulated during a previous stage and/or that the accretion is an episodic phenomenon. We show that some of the targets originally classified as Class I through Spitzer photometry are in fact evolved or low accreting objects. This evidence can have implications for the estimated protostellar phase lifetimes. Further observations are needed to determine if this is a general result.

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