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2010A&A...515A..31L - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 515, A31-31 (2010/6-1)

The low-mass diskless population of Corona Australis.

LOPEZ MARTI B., SPEZZI L., MERIN B., MORALES-CALDERON M., BOUY H., BARRADO Y NAVASCUES D. and EISLOEFFEL J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We combine published optical and near-infrared photometry to identify new low-mass candidate members in an area of about 0.64deg2 in Corona Australis with the S-parameter method. Five new candidate members of the region are selected. They have estimated ages between 3 and 15Myr and masses between 0.05 and 0.15M. With Spitzer photometry we confirm that these objects are not surrounded by optically thick disks. However, one of them is found to display excess at 24µm, thus suggesting it harbors a disk with an inner hole. With an estimated mass of 0.07M according to the SED fitting, this is one of the lowest-mass objects reported to possess a transitional disk. Including these new members, the fraction of disks is about 50% among the total Corona Australis population selected by the same criteria, lower than the 70% fraction reported earlier for this region. Even so, we find a ratio of transitional to primordial disks (45%) very similar to the value derived by previous authors. This ratio is higher than for solar-type stars (5-10%), suggesting that disk evolution is faster in the latter, and/or that the ``transitional disk'' stage is not such a short-lived step for very low-mass objects. However, this impression needs to be confirmed with better statistics.

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Journal keyword(s): stars: low-mass - stars: formation - stars: pre-main sequence - stars: luminosity function, mass function

Nomenclature: Tables 2, 3, 5: [LSM2010] Cra JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s N=5.

Simbad objects: 27

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