Pre-main Sequence stars in LH91

Abstract

We study the accretion properties of pre-main sequence low-mass stars in the LH 91 association within the Large Magellanic Clouds. Using optical multiband photometry obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, we identify 75 candidates showing H$\alpha$ excess emission above the 3$\sigma$ level with equivalent width $E{W}_{H\alpha }$ $\ge$ 10 Å. We estimate the physical parameters (effective temperature, luminosity, age, mass, accretion luminosity and mass accretion rate) of the pre-main sequence stellar candidates. The age distribution suggests a star formation ranging from few Myr up to $\sim$ 60 Myr with a gap between $\sim$ 5 Myr and 10 Myr. The masses of the PMS candidates span from 0.2 $M_{\odot }$ for the cooler objects to 1.0 $M_{\odot }$ with a median of $\sim$ 0.80 $M_{\odot }$. The median value of the accretion luminosity of our 75 PMS stars is about 0.12 $L_{\odot }$, the median value of the mass accretion rate is about 4.8 $\times$ $10^{-9}$ $M_{\odot }y{r}^{-1}$ with higher values for the younger population ($\sim$ 1.2 $\times$ $10^{-8}$ $M_{\odot }y{r}^{-1}$), and lower values for the older candidates ($\sim$ 4.7 $\times$ $10^{-9}$ $M_{\odot }y{r}^{-1}$). We compare our results with the findings on LH 95, the closer region to LH 91 for which accretion properties of PMS candidates were derived. An interesting qualitative outcome is that LH 91 seems to be in a more evolved stage. Moreover, we find that the PMS candidates are distributed homogeneously, without any evidence of clumps around more massive stars.

A&A, 2022

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