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We discuss results of global 3D MHD simulations of accretion on to a rotating magnetized star with a tilted dipole magnetic field, where the accretion is driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). The simulations show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We report new magnetic field measurements for 14 classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs). We combine these data with one previous field determination in order to compare our observed field strengths with the field strengths predicted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christopher M. Johns-Krull

T Tauri stars are low-mass pre-main sequence stars that are intrinsically variable. Due to the intense magnetic fields they possess, they develop dark spots on their surface that, because of rotation, introduce a periodic variation of…

Photospheric absorption lines in classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) are weak compared to normal stars. This so-called veiling is normally identified with an excess continuous emission formed in shock-heated gas at the stellar surface below the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. F. Gahm , F. M. Walter , H. C. Stempels , P. P. Petrov , G. J. Herczeg

Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) accrete material from their discs through their magnetospheres. The geometry of the accretion flow strongly depends on the magnetic obliquity, i.e., the angle between the rotational and magnetic axes. We aim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Pauline McGinnis , Jérôme Bouvier , Florian Gallet

In classic time-dependent 1D accretion disk models, the inner radiation pressure dominated regime is viscously unstable. However, late-time observations of accretion disks formed in tidal disruption events (TDEs) do not exhibit evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Yael Alush , Nicholas C. Stone

We investigate the spot activity of the young chromospherically active main sequence star LQ Hya. Our aims are to identify possible active longitudes, estimate the differential rotation and study long and short term changes in the activity.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 J. Lehtinen , L. Jetsu , T. Hackman , P. Kajatkari , G. W. Henry

The properties of accretion disks around stars and brown dwarfs in the SOri cluster (age 3 Myr) are studied based on NIR time series photometry supported by MIR spectral energy distributions. We monitor ~30 young low-mass sources over 8…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Scholz , Xiaoying Xu , Ray Jayawardhana , Kenneth Wood , Jochen Eisloeffel , Ciara Quinn

We present a study of the long-term optical variability of young T Tauri stars using previously unpublished data from the SuperWASP project. Other publicly available photometry from NSVS and the NASA K2 mission were used to check and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-13 Ľubomír Hambálek , Martin Vaňko , Ernst Paunzen , Barry Smalley

We investigated the boundary between stable and unstable regimes of accretion and its dependence on different parameters. Simulations were performed using a "cubed sphere" code with high grid resolution (244 grid points in the azimuthal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. A. Blinova , R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

From observations collected with the ESPaDOnS and NARVAL spectropolarimeters, we report the detection of Zeeman signatures on the classical T Tauri star BP Tau. Circular polarisation signatures in photospheric lines and in narrow emission…

When the accretion disc around a weakly magnetised neutron star (NS) meets the stellar surface, it should brake down to match the rotation of the NS, forming a boundary layer. As the mechanisms potentially responsible for this braking are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Pavel Abolmasov , Joonas Nättilä , Juri Poutanen

We present a reference study of the long-term optical variability of young stars using data from the WASP project. Our primary sample is a group of well-studied classical T Tauri stars (CTTS), mostly in Taurus-Auriga. WASP lightcurves cover…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Laura Rigon , Aleks Scholz , David Anderson , Richard West

We have carried out a photometric time domain study of 188 intermediate-mass young stars observed in Full Frame Image mode with the TESS satellite over the first 3.3 years of its mission. The majority of these targets are classified as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Ann Marie Cody , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Shreya Chandragiri , Marvin Morgan

EX Lupi is the prototype of EX Lup-type stars, meaning classical T Tauri stars (cTTSs) showing luminosity bursts and outbursts of 1 to 5 magnitudes lasting for a few months to a few years. These events are ascribed to an episodic accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Kim Pouilly , Marc Audard , Alexis Lavail , Ágnes Kóspál

We report here the first results of a multi-wavelength campaign focussing on magnetospheric accretion processes of the classical TTauri star (cTTS) V2129Oph. In this paper, we present spectropolarimetric observations collected in 2009 July…

Classical T Tauri stars are pre-main-sequence objects that undergo simultaneous accretion, wind outflow, and coronal X-ray emission. The impact of plasma on the stellar surface from magnetospheric accretion streams is likely to be a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Steven R. Cranmer

The T Tauri stars with active accretion disks show veiled photospheric spectra. This is supposedly due to non-photospheric continuum radiated by hot spots beneath the accretion shocks at stellar surface and/or chromospheric emission lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 A. C. S. Rei , P. P. Petrov , J. F. Gameiro

T Tauri Stars (TTSs) are magnetically active stars that accrete matter from the inner border of the surrounding accretion disc; plasma gets trapped into the large scale magnetic structures and falls onto the star, heating the surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Ana I. Gomez de Castro , Anna Antonicci , Juan Carlos Vallejo

We analyze the variability in accretion-related emission lines for 40 Classical T Tauri stars to probe the extent of accretion variations in young stellar objects. Our analysis is based on multi-epoch high-resolution spectra for young stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Duy Cuong Nguyen , Alexander Scholz , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Ray Jayawardhana , Alexis Brandeker