Benchmarking pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using disk-based dynamical stellar masses

Abstract

Stellar masses are a fundamental property to understand models of pre-main sequence evolution, but their values derived from Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagrams are strongly model dependent. We benchmark pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using stellar masses dynamically estimated by fitting a parametric model to ALMA observations of the ${}^{12}$CO $(J=3-2)$ line transition emitted by the disks orbiting 20 sources in the old ($4-14$ Myr) Upper Scorpius star forming region. We derive stellar masses from HR diagram fitting for ten different stellar evolutionary models, which we then compare with their stellar dynamical masses for comparison in the stellar mass range $0.1-1.3M_{\odot }$. Models with a moderate-to-low fraction of cold stellar spots ($f=17\%$) most accurately reproduce the dynamical stellar masses ($100\%$ of the targets agree within $\pm 1\sigma$). While a higher spot coverage ($f=34\%$) provides similar stellar mass predictions similar to magnetic equipartition models, larger fractions ($f\ge 51\%$) significantly disagree with dynamical masses. Magnetic equipartition models overestimate stellar masses up to a factor $\sim 20\%$, whereas non-magnetic models underestimate them up to $\sim 12\%$. For some models, there is evidence that the stellar mass discrepancies are anticorrelated with dynamical stellar masses. When stellar dynamical mass priors are considered in HR diagram fitting, the median age of a single source can change up to $\sim 25\%$, while the median ages inferred across different tracks become consistent, with the age scatter decreasing by $\gtrsim 77\%$. These results provide strong empirical constraints for testing and developing evolutionary models of pre-main sequence stars.

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