Bibcode
DOI
Martín, E. L.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomical Journal, vol. 115, p. 351
Fecha de publicación:
1
1998
Revista
Número de citas
105
Número de citas referidas
93
Descripción
I report medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of six H
emission-line stars proposed by Meyer et al. (1993) to be T Tauri stars
formed in the vicinity of the B1 giant Sco, a bright member of the
Sco-Cen OB association. Using spectroscopic criteria which are
distance-independent, I classify these stars in different
premain-sequence (PMS) classes. Taking data from the literature, a
number of stars detected by X-ray observations around other B-type
members of Sco-Cen are also classified. The current census of 'bona
fide' low-mass PMS stars identified in about 9 sq deg in Sco-Cen
includes two classical T Tauri stars, 18 weak T Tauri stars (WTTSs), and
10 post-T Tauri stars (PTTSs). The presence of a mixture of T Tauri and
post T Tauri stars implies that previous results based on isochrone
fitting that indicated an extremely young age for the Sco-Cen PMS
low-mass population are incorrect. A distance of about 125 pc for
Sco-Cen, instead of the 160 pc used in previous works, is consistent
with the Hipparcos parallaxes for many of the B-type stars and would
lead to older H-R diagram ages. Taking into account that PTTSs are
generally fainter and harder to identify than WTTSs, I argue that the
WTTS-to-PTTS ratio in Sco-Cen may be of order unity. This result
suggests that the low-mass stars of the OB association span an age range
similar to the B-type members the low- and high-mass star populations
are essentially coeval.