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Variability is a defining characteristic of young stellar systems, and optical variability has been heavily studied to select and characterize the photospheric properties of young stars. In recent years, multi-epoch observations sampling a…

Light curves of young stars exhibit photometric variability over hours to decades and across a wide range of amplitudes. On time scales beyond a few rotation periods, these light curves are typically stochastic. The variability arises from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Benjamin W. Ryan , Holly Stokes-Geddes , Dirk Froebrich

This article represents a short review of the variability characteristics of young stellar objects. Variability is a key property of young stars. Two major origins may be distinguished: a scaled-up version of the magnetic activity seen on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 B. Stelzer

Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotations. The principal LSST surveys will have cadences too sparse and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Frederica Bianco , Sara Bonito

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 more massive objects ($\sim$2 $M_\odot$ to 4-5 $M_\odot$), and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Laura Venuti , Ann Marie Cody , Luisa M. Rebull , Giacomo Beccari , Mike Irwin , Sowmya Thanvantri , Steve B. Howell , Geert Barentsen

We present simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic observations of seven young and highly variable M dwarfs in star forming regions in Orion, conducted in 4 observing nights with FORS2 at ESO/VLT. All seven targets show significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 I. Bozhinova , A. Scholz , J. Eislöffel

Variability is a defining characteristic of young low-mass stars that are still accreting material from their primordial protoplanetary disk. Here we present the largest \textit{HST} variability study of Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Connor Robinson , Catherine Espaillat

Variability in the infrared emission from disks around pre-main sequence stars over the course of days to weeks appears to be common, but the physical cause of the changes in disk structure are not constrained. Here we present coordinated…

We present radiation transfer models of rotating young stellar objects (YSOs) with hotspots in their atmospheres, inner disk warps and other 3-D effects in the nearby circumstellar environment. Our models are based on the geometry expected…

Variability is a characteristic feature of young stellar objects (YSOs) and could contribute to the large scatter observed in HR diagrams for star forming regions. For typical YSOs, however, the long-term effects of variability are poorly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aleks Scholz

Variability in the brightness of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) is a common phenomenon that can be caused by changes in various factors, including accretion, extinction, disk morphology, interactions between the disk and the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Sieun Lee , Jeong-Eun Lee , Carlos Contreras Peña , Doug Johnstone , Gregory Herczeg , Seonjae Lee

Young stars exhibit variability due to changes in the gas accretion rate onto them, an effect that should be quite significant in the early stages of their formation. As protostars are embedded within their natal cloud, this variability may…

Infrared variability is common among young stellar objects, with surveys finding daily to weekly fluctuations of a few tenths of a magnitude. Space-based observations can produce highly sampled infrared light curves, but are often limited…

We present first results from a new, multiyear, time domain survey of young stars in the North America Nebula complex using the Palomar Transient Factory. Our survey is providing an unprecedented view of aperiodic variability in young stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Krzysztof Findeisen , Lynne Hillenbrand , Eran Ofek , David Levitan , Branimir Sesar , Russ Laher , Jason Surace

Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of rapidly variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotation. The principal Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Eric D. Feigelson , Federica B. Bianco , Rosaria Bonito

Young stars show a variety of highly energetic phenomena, from accretion and outflow processes to hot coronal plasmas confined in their outer atmosphere, all regulated by the intense stellar magnetic fields. Many aspects on each of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Costanza Argiroffi

Variability of Classical T Tauri Systems (CTTS) occurs over a vast range of timescales. CTTS in particular are subject to variability caused by accretion shocks which can occur stochastically, periodically, or quasi-periodically on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Lauren I. Biddle , Joe Llama , Andrew Collier Cameron , Lisa A. Prato , Moira M. Jardine , Christopher M. Johns-Krull

Variable accretion in young stellar objects reveals itself photometrically and spectroscopically over a continuum of timescales and amplitudes. Most dramatic are the large outbursts (e.g., FU Ori, V1647 Ori, and EX Lup type events), but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 William J. Fischer , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Gregory J. Herczeg , Doug Johnstone , Ágnes Kóspál , Michael M. Dunham

Variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) can be caused by various time-dependent phenomena associated with star formation, including accretion rates, geometric changes in the circumstellar disks, stochastic hydromagnetic interactions…

Context. A characteristic feature of young stellar objects is their variability, which is caused by a variety of different physical processes. High-resolution interferometric observations in the near- and mid-infrared wavelength ranges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 A. Bensberg , J. Kobus , S. Wolf
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