Accretion in the Rho-Oph pre-main sequence stars

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a measurement of the mass accretion rate in a large, complete sample of objects in the core of the star forming region Rho-Oph. The sample includes most of the objects (104 out of 111) with evidence of a circumstellar disk from mid-infrared photometry; it covers a stellar mass range from about 0.03 to 3 Msun and it is complete to a limiting mass of ~0.05 Msun. We used J and K-band spectra to derive the mass accretion rate of each object from the intensity of the hydrogen recombination lines, Pab or Brg. For comparison, we also obtained similar spectra of 35 diskless objects. The results show that emission in these lines is only seen in stars with disks, and can be used as an indicator of accretion. However, the converse does not hold, as about 50% of our disk objects do not have detectable line emission. The measured accretion rates show a strong correlation with the mass of the central object (Macc ~ Mstar^1.8+-0.2) and a large spread, of two orders of magnitude at least, for any interval of Mstar. A comparison with existing data for Taurus shows that the objects in the two regions have similar behaviour, at least for objects more massive than ~0.1Msun. The implications of these results are briefly discussed.

A&A in press, 16 pages including tables, 5 figures

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