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Title: Homogeneous study of Herbig Ae/Be stars from spectral energy distributions and Gaia EDR3
Authors: Guzmán Díaz, J.
Mendigutía, I.
Montesinos, B.
Oudmaijer, R. D.
Vioque, M.
Rodrigo, C.
Solano, E.
Meeus, G.
Marcos Arenal, P.
Keywords: Protoplanetary disk;Stars: pre-main sequence;Stars: variables: T Tauri;Herbig Ae/Be;Virtual observatory tools;Stars: fundamental parameters;Astronomical databases: miscellaneous
Issue Date: 25-Jun-2021
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039519
Published version: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/06/aa39519-20/aa39519-20.html
Citation: Astronomy and Astrophysics 650: A182(2021)
Abstract: Context. Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBes) have so far been studied based on relatively small samples that are scattered throughout the sky. Their fundamental stellar and circumstellar parameters and statistical properties were derived with heterogeneous approaches before Gaia. Aims. Our main goal is to contribute to the study of HAeBes from the largest sample of such sources to date, for which stellar and circumstellar properties have been determined homogeneously from the analysis of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and Gaia EDR3 parallaxes and photometry. Methods. Multiwavelength photometry was compiled for 209 bona fide HAeBes for which Gaia EDR3 distances were estimated. Using the Virtual Observatory SED Analyser (VOSA), photospheric models were fit to the optical SEDs to derive stellar parameters, and the excesses at infrared (IR) and longer wavelengths were characterized to derive several circumstellar properties. A statistical analysis was carried out to show the potential use of such a large dataset. Results. The stellar temperature, luminosity, radius, mass, and age were derived for each star based on optical photometry. In addition, their IR SEDs were classified according to two different schemes, and their mass accretion rates, disk masses, and the sizes of the inner dust holes were also estimated uniformly. The initial mass function fits the stellar mass distribution of the sample within 2 < M*∕M⊙ < 12. In this aspect, the sample is therefore representative of the HAeBe regime and can be used for statistical purposes when it is taken into account that the boundaries are not well probed. Our statistical study does not reveal any connection between the SED shape from the Meeus et al. (2001, A&A, 365, 476) classification and the presence of transitional disks, which are identified here based on the SEDs that show an IR excess starting at the K band or longer wavelengths. In contrast, only ~28% of the HAeBes have transitional disks, and the related dust disk holes are more frequent in HBes than in HAes (~34% vs. 15%). The relatively small inner disk holes and old stellar ages estimated for most transitional HAes indicate that photoevaporation cannot be the main mechanism driving disk dissipation in these sources. In contrast, the inner disk holes and ages of most transitional HBes are consistent with the photoevaporation scenario, although these results alone do not unambiguously discard other disk dissipation mechanisms.Conclusions. The complete dataset is available online through a Virtual Observatory-compliant archive, representing the most recent reference for statistical studies on the HAeBe regime. VOSA is a complementary tool for the future characterization of newly identified HAeBes.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/725
E-ISSN: 1432-0746
ISSN: 0004-6361
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