期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 394, 期 1, 页码 L141-L145出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00634.x
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; circumstellar matter; planetary systems: protoplanetary discs; stars: pre-main-sequence
资金
- NASA
We re-examine the recent suggestion of a high fraction of transition discs (i.e. those with a cleared inner hole) in M stars, motivated by the fact that we expect that, for M stars, even discs without inner holes should exhibit very weak excess shortwards of around 10 mu m. Our analysis of spectral energy distribution models suggests that this indeed means that M stars where a detectable excess begins at around 6 mu m may be misclassified as transition discs when in fact they have optically thick dust extending in to the dust sublimation radius. Consequently, we estimate that the transition disc fraction among M stars in the Coronet cluster is similar to 15 +/- 10 per cent (rather than the recently claimed value of 50 per cent). This revised figure would imply that the transition disc fraction is not after all markedly higher in later type stars. We suggest that, for M stars, transition discs can only be readily identified if they have emission that is close to photospheric out to > 10 mu m.
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