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    T Tauri stars (TTS) are a class of variable stars that are less than about ten million years old. This class is named after the prototype, T Tauri, a young...
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    T Tauri is a trinary variable star in the constellation Taurus, the prototype of the T Tauri stars. It was discovered in October 1852 by John Russell Hind...
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    HL Tauri (abbreviated HL Tau) is a young T Tauri star in the constellation Taurus, approximately 450 light-years (140 pc) from Earth in the Taurus Molecular...
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  • with abrupt mass transfer from an accretion disc onto a young, low mass T Tauri star. Mass accretion rates for these objects are estimated to be around 10−4...
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    magnitudes. T Tauri stars are Orion variables exhibiting characteristic fluorescent violet emission lines from singly ionized iron (Fe II) in their star spectra...
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    of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star. The protoplanetary disk may not be considered an accretion...
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  • Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References External links A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having...
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    accretion disk that feeds the central star. Initially very hot, the disk later cools in what is known as the T Tauri star stage; here, formation of small dust...
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    Beta Tauri is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Taurus. It has the official name Elnath; Beta Tauri is the current Bayer designation, which...
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    PDS 70 (category T Tauri stars)
    PDS 70 (V1032 Centauri) is a very young T Tauri star in the constellation Centaurus. Located 370 light-years (110 parsecs) from Earth, it has a mass of...
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    Aldebaran (redirect from Alpha Tauri)
    Follower') is a star located in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It has the Bayer designation α Tauri, which is Latinized to Alpha Tauri and abbreviated...
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    observed PMS object can either be a T Tauri star, if it has fewer than 2 solar masses (M☉), or else a Herbig Ae/Be star, if it has 2 to 8 M☉. Yet more massive...
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    Alcyone /ælˈsaɪəniː/, designated η Tauri (Eta Tauri, abbreviated Eta Tau, η Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus. Approximately 440 light-years...
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    V830 Tauri is a T Tauri star located 425.2 light-years (130.4 pc) away from the Sun in the constellation Taurus. This star is very young, with an age...
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    third star, component C, has been observed at a separation of 0.09″, but subsequent observations failed to find it. The T Tauri star HL Tauri, 23″ away...
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    V1298 Tauri is a young (23±4 Myr) weakly-lined T Tauri star that is part of the Taurus-Auriga association in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Alternatively...
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    DH Tauri, also known as DH Tau, is a type M star, located 140 parsecs (456.619 light years) away. It forms a binary system with DI Tauri 15″ away, and...
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    dwarfs and multiple T Tauri stars. The young population includes HK Orionis, a Herbig Ae/Be star and HI Orionis, a T Tauri star. The stellar population...
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    T Tauri stars evolve into weakly lined T Tauri stars. This happens after about 1 million years. The mass of the disk around a classical T Tauri star is...
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    than F0 (in order to exclude T Tauri stars), Balmer emission lines in the stellar spectrum (in order to be similar to T Tauri stars), Projected location...
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    CI Tauri is a young star, about 2 million years old, located approximately 523 light-years (160 parsecs) away in the constellation Taurus. It is still...
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    Zeta TauriTauri, abbreviated Zeta Tau, ζ Tau) is a binary star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus, the Bull. It has an apparent visual magnitude...
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    Tagyeta (redirect from Q Tauri)
    Tauri A together with a single star visual companion, 19 Tauri B. 'A's' two components are themselves designated 19 Tauri Aa (officially named Taygeta /teɪˈɪdʒətə/...
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    V1331 Cygni (category T Tauri stars)
    Variable Stars classifies V1331 Cygni as an "INST" type variable, meaning a T Tauri star which shows rapid light variations. Its visual band brightness varies...
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    Epsilon Tauri or ε Tauri, formally named Ain (/ˈeɪn/), is an orange giant star located approximately 146 light-years (45 parsecs) from the Sun in the constellation...
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    V773 Tauri is a young, multiple star system in the central region of Taurus, an equatorial constellation. This is a T Tauri-type variable star that ranges...
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    CT Chamaeleontis (category T Tauri stars)
    CT Chamaeleontis (CT Cha) is a T Tauri star - a primary of the star system in the constellation of Chamaeleon. It has an apparent visual magnitude which...
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    Hayashi track (category Star formation)
    becomes a T Tauri star, it is extremely luminous. The star continues to contract, but much more slowly. While slowly contracting, the star follows the...
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  • The T Tauri wind — so named because of the young star currently in this stage—is a phenomenon indicative of the phase of stellar development between the...
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