7DT Insight: Variability in Young Stellar Objects
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| author | Kim, Mi-Ryang Lee, Jeong-Eun Im, Myungshin Lee, Jinho Kim, Ji Hoon Chang, Seo-Won Paek, Gregory S. H. Choi, Hyeonho Tak, Donggeun Hyun, Donghwan Lee, Won-Hyeong Lee, Hyeyoon Kim, ShinGeon Megeath, S. Thomas |
| author_facet | Kim, Mi-Ryang Lee, Jeong-Eun Im, Myungshin Lee, Jinho Kim, Ji Hoon Chang, Seo-Won Paek, Gregory S. H. Choi, Hyeonho Tak, Donggeun Hyun, Donghwan Lee, Won-Hyeong Lee, Hyeyoon Kim, ShinGeon Megeath, S. Thomas |
| contents | Photometric variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) provides critical insight into the mechanisms of mass accretion, disk evolution, and circumstellar extinction in early stellar evolution. We present an analysis of day-timescale optical variability in the Orion A central region using two-night 7-Dimensional Telescope (7DT) medium-band photometry obtained on March 23 and 24, 2024. The 7DT observations provide optical spectral sampling with 16 medium-band filters spanning 400--825 nm, enabling direct two-epoch comparisons. To remove satellite-trail contamination, we used an SSIM-based ResNet classifier (accuracy 0.97; F1 = 0.93) to exclude affected exposures. Subsequent photometry and two-epoch variability measurements yielded a working sample of 769 YSO candidates, among which we identified 110 variables ($\sim$14\%), including seven extreme cases with $|Δm_λ|>0.5$ mag. To describe the wavelength dependence of the variability, we compared five simple templates: extinction-like changes ($R_V =$ 3.1 and 5.5), a gray (wavelength-independent) change, and two spot-like toy models (hot and cold) implemented as two-temperature surface mixtures. The best-fit results are dominated by spot-like templates (37 cold-spot and 22 hot-spot objects), with 37 sources best matched by extinction-like templates and 14 by the gray template. The m650 excess fraction is higher in the hot-spot and gray templates than in the others. This could be compatible with more frequent line/veiling-related contributions in those groups, although the m650 excess is not a direct accretion diagnostic. |
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| spellingShingle | 7DT Insight: Variability in Young Stellar Objects Kim, Mi-Ryang Lee, Jeong-Eun Im, Myungshin Lee, Jinho Kim, Ji Hoon Chang, Seo-Won Paek, Gregory S. H. Choi, Hyeonho Tak, Donggeun Hyun, Donghwan Lee, Won-Hyeong Lee, Hyeyoon Kim, ShinGeon Megeath, S. Thomas Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Photometric variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) provides critical insight into the mechanisms of mass accretion, disk evolution, and circumstellar extinction in early stellar evolution. We present an analysis of day-timescale optical variability in the Orion A central region using two-night 7-Dimensional Telescope (7DT) medium-band photometry obtained on March 23 and 24, 2024. The 7DT observations provide optical spectral sampling with 16 medium-band filters spanning 400--825 nm, enabling direct two-epoch comparisons. To remove satellite-trail contamination, we used an SSIM-based ResNet classifier (accuracy 0.97; F1 = 0.93) to exclude affected exposures. Subsequent photometry and two-epoch variability measurements yielded a working sample of 769 YSO candidates, among which we identified 110 variables ($\sim$14\%), including seven extreme cases with $|Δm_λ|>0.5$ mag. To describe the wavelength dependence of the variability, we compared five simple templates: extinction-like changes ($R_V =$ 3.1 and 5.5), a gray (wavelength-independent) change, and two spot-like toy models (hot and cold) implemented as two-temperature surface mixtures. The best-fit results are dominated by spot-like templates (37 cold-spot and 22 hot-spot objects), with 37 sources best matched by extinction-like templates and 14 by the gray template. The m650 excess fraction is higher in the hot-spot and gray templates than in the others. This could be compatible with more frequent line/veiling-related contributions in those groups, although the m650 excess is not a direct accretion diagnostic. |
| title | 7DT Insight: Variability in Young Stellar Objects |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18366 |