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astro-ph.SR2026

Rotation in the Lagoon Nebula with K2

L. M. Rebull, A. M. Cody, L. Venuti +2

A low-mass star's rotation rate drives its magnetic field, and in the case of young stars, also affects accretion and planetary formation. Observations of the rotation rates of you…

astro-ph.SR2026

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Photometric Diagnostics of Magnetospheric Accretion Geometry in Young Stellar Objects

Laura Venuti, Connor E. Robinson, Ann Marie Cody +13

The inner disk truncation radius, , plays a crucial role in the regulation of star-disk interaction and the early evolution of star-disk-planet systems; however, measuring thi…

astro-ph.SR2025

The mass distribution of clumpy accretion onto the nearby young star TW Hya

Tao Ji, Javier Serna, Gregory J. Herczeg +12

The proliferation of high time-resolution and decades-long monitoring of classical T Tauri stars provides a vast opportunity to test the variability of the star-disk connections. H…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 8 cited

PENELLOPE VII: Revisiting empirical relations to measure accretion luminosity

E. Fiorellino, J. M. Alcalá, C. F. Manara +10

The accretion luminosity (Lacc) in young, low-mass stars is crucial for understanding stellar formation, but direct measurements are often hindered by limited spectral coverage and…

astro-ph.SR2025

The ODYSSEUS Survey. Characterizing magnetospheric geometries and hotspot structures in T Tauri stars

Caeley V. Pittman, C. C. Espaillat, Connor E. Robinson +20

Magnetospheric accretion is a key process that shapes the inner disks of T Tauri stars, controlling mass and angular momentum evolution. It produces strong ultraviolet and optical…

astro-ph.SR2025

Hunting for UVdim stars in Galactic Open clusters. Clues from ultraviolet photometry

G. Cordoni, A. P. Milone, L. Casagrande +7

Split main-sequences (MSs) and extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) have been observed in nearly all Magellanic Clouds clusters younger than 2 Gyr. More recently, Hubble Space…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Do accretion-powered stellar winds help spin down T Tauri stars?

Lukas Gehrig, Eric Gaidos, Laura Venuti +2

How T Tauri stars remain slowly rotating while still accreting material is a long-standing puzzle. Current models suggest that these stars may lose angular momentum through magneto…

astro-ph.SR2024

Using the Ca II lines in T Tauri stars to infer the abundance of refractory elements in the innermost disk regions

Marbely Micolta, Nuria Calvet, Thanawuth Thanathibodee +5

We present a study of the abundance of calcium in the innermost disk of 70 T Tauri stars in the star-forming regions of Chamaeleon I, Lupus and Orion OB1b. We use calcium as a prox…

astro-ph.SR2024

A Multi-wavelength, Multi-epoch Monitoring Campaign of Accretion Variability in T Tauri Stars from the ODYSSEUS Survey. III. Optical Spectra

John Wendeborn, Catherine C. Espaillat, Thanawuth Thanathibodee +20

Classical T Tauri Stars (CTTSs) are highly variable stars that possess gas- and dust-rich disks from which planets form. Much of their variability is driven by mass accretion from…

astro-ph.SR2024

FitteR for Accretion ProPErties of T Tauri stars (FRAPPE): A new approach to use Class III spectra to derive stellar and accretion properties

R. A. B. Claes, J. Campbell-White, C. F. Manara +10

Studies of the stellar and accretion properties of classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) require comparison with photospheric spectral templates. Here we aim at expanding the currently av…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Long period modulation of the classical T Tauri star CI Tau: evidence for an eccentric close-in massive planet at 0.17 au

R. Manick, A. P. Sousa, J. Bouvier +13

Detecting planets within protoplanetary disks around young stars is essential for understanding planet formation and evolution. However, planet detection using the radial velocity…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Circumstellar disk accretion across the Lagoon Nebula: the influence of environment and stellar mass

L. Venuti, A. M. Cody, G. Beccari +9

Pre-main sequence disk accretion is pivotal in determining the final stellar properties and the early conditions for close-in planets. We aim to establish the impact of internal (s…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Twenty-Five Years of Accretion onto the Classical T Tauri Star TW Hya

Gregory J. Herczeg, Yuguang Chen, Jean-Francois Donati +39

Accretion plays a central role in the physics that governs the evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks. The primary goal of this paper is to analyze the stability over time…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

PENELLOPE IV. A comparison between optical forbidden lines and UV lines in the Orion OB1b and -Ori associations

M. Gangi, B. Nisini, C. F. Manara +17

Observing the spatial distribution and excitation processes of atomic and molecular gas in the inner regions (< 20 au) of young (< 10 Myr) protoplanetary disks helps us to understa…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Empirical Determination of the Lithium 6707.856 Å Wavelength in Young Stars

Justyn Campbell-White, Carlo F. Manara, Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar +20

Absorption features in stellar atmospheres are often used to calibrate photocentric velocities for kinematic analysis of further spectral lines. The Li feature at 6708 Å is…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 13 cited

Young stellar objects, accretion disks, and their variability with Rubin Observatory LSST

R. Bonito, L. Venuti, S. Ustamujic +14

Vera C. Rubin Observatory, through the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will allow us to derive a panchromatic view of variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) across all…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Lyman-alpha Scattering Models Trace Accretion and Outflow Kinematics in T Tauri Systems

Nicole Arulanantham, Max Gronke, Eleonora Fiorellino +18

T Tauri stars produce broad Lyman-alpha emission lines that contribute 88% of the total UV flux incident on the inner circumstellar disks. Lyman-alpha photons are generated a…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 42 cited

Towards a comprehensive view of accretion, inner disks, and extinction in classical T Tauri stars: an ODYSSEUS study of the Orion OB1b association

Caeley V. Pittman, Catherine C. Espaillat, Connor E. Robinson +21

The coevolution of T Tauri stars and their surrounding protoplanetary disks dictates the timescales of planet formation. In this paper, we present magnetospheric accretion and inne…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 21 cited

PENELLOPE III. The peculiar accretion variability of XX Cha and its impact on the observed spread of accretion rates

R. A. B. Claes, C. F. Manara, R. Garcia-Lopez +17

The processes regulating protoplanetary disk evolution are constrained by studying how mass accretion rates scale with stellar and disk properties. The spread in these relations ca…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 1 cited

PENELLOPE II. CVSO 104: a pre-main sequence close binary with an optical companion in Ori OB1

A. Frasca, H. M. J. Boffin, C. F. Manara +14

We present results of our study of the close pre-main sequence spectroscopic binary CVSO 104 in Ori OB1, based on data obtained within the PENELLOPE legacy program. We derive, for…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 33 cited

Multicolor Variability of Young Stars in the Lagoon Nebula: Driving Causes and Intrinsic Timescales

Laura Venuti, Ann Marie Cody, Luisa M. Rebull +5

Space observatories have provided unprecedented depictions of the many variability behaviors typical of low-mass, young stars. However, those studies have so far largely omitted mo…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 76 cited

PENELLOPE: the ESO data legacy program to complement the Hubble UV Legacy Library of Young Stars (ULLYSES) I. Survey presentation and accretion properties of Orion OB1 and -Orionis

C. F. Manara, A. Frasca, L. Venuti +69

The evolution of young stars and disks is driven by the interplay of several processes, notably accretion and ejection of material. Critical to correctly describe the conditions of…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 5 cited

ISO-ChaI 52: a weakly-accreting young stellar object with a dipper light curve

A. Frasca, C. F. Manara, J. M. Alcalá +6

We report on the discovery of periodic dips in the multiband lightcurve of ISO-ChaI 52, a young stellar object in the Chamaeleon I dark cloud. This is one among the peculiar object…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 50 cited

X-shooter spectroscopy of young stars with disks. The TW Hydrae association as a probe of the final stages of disk accretion

L. Venuti, B. Stelzer, J. M. Alcalá +9

We investigate ongoing accretion activity in young stars in the TW Hydrae association (TWA, ~8-10 Myr), an ideal target to probe the final stages of disk accretion down to brown dw…