Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2001

Published In

Young Stars Near Earth: Progress And Prospects: Proceedings Of A Workshop

Series Title

ASP Conference Series

Abstract

I review the observational challenges of finding post T Tauri stars (PTTS), defined here as low-mass, pre-main-sequence stars with ages of 10(7)-10(8) yr. Such stars are difficult to find because they are less active than younger T Tauri stars, and they may not be associated with molecular gas. They are useful for studying the evolution of circumstellar disks and stellar activity between the 10(6)-yr ages of nearby star-forming regions and the main sequence. However, care must be taken in the search process so that the selection criteria used to locate such stars do not bias the sample used for subsequent evolutionary studies.

Published By

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Editor(s)

R. Jayawardhana and T. P. Greeme

Conference

Workshop On Young Stars Near Earth

Conference Dates

March 28-30, 2001

Conference Location

NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA

Comments

This work is freely available courtesy of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
This work is a preprint retrieved from arXiv.org at arXiv:astro-ph/0105031..

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