RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649
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Keywords

open clusters and associations: general
stars: evolution
stars: fundamental parameters
stars: pre-main sequence

How to Cite

Age Estimation And Mass Functions of TTauri Stars in The Taurus Auriga Molecular Cloud. (2010). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 46(1), 109-114. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxaa/article/view/2010rmxaa..46..109k

Abstract

In this work the present day mass functions (PDMF) of T-Tauri Stars (TTS) which are in the pre-main sequence (PMS) evolutionary phase of their evolution in the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Cloud Complex have been calculated. For this purpose, by applying our modified stellar evolutionary code, stellar models in the mass range 0.1 - 2.5 M_⊙ are used to determine the mass and age mass of TTS. The obtained mass function is compared with the mass function of Miller & Scalo (1979). The age found for TTS is around 1-3×10^6 yr and the mass function is about 0.644 ∓ 0.348. From these results, we have calculated the stellar birthrate as about 1.3×10^{-7} M_⊙ yr^{-1} in this region.
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