J/A+A/634/A98       Corona-Australis DANCe. I.                    (Galli+, 2020)

Corona-Australis DANCe. I. Revisiting the census of stars with Gaia-DR2 data. Galli P.A.B., Bouy H., Olivares J., Miret-Roig N., Sarro L.M., Barrado D., Berihuete A. Brandner W. <Astron. Astrophys. 634, A98 (2020)> =2020A&A...634A..98G 2020A&A...634A..98G (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Proper motions ; Parallaxes, trigonometric ; Radial velocities Keywords: open clusters and associations: individual: Corona-Australis - stars: formation - stars: distances - methods: statistical - parallaxes - proper motions Abstract: Corona-Australis is one of the nearest regions to the Sun with recent and ongoing star formation, but the current picture of its stellar (and substellar) content is not complete yet. We take advantage of the second data release of the Gaia space mission to revisit the stellar census and search for additional members of the young stellar association in Corona-Australis. We applied a probabilistic method to infer membership probabilities based on a multidimensional astrometric and photometric data set over a field of 128deg2 around the dark clouds of the region. We identify 313 high-probability candidate members to the Corona-Australis association, 262 of which had never been reported as members before. Our sample of members covers the magnitude range between G≳5mag and G≲20mag, and it reveals the existence of two kinematically and spatially distinct subgroups. There is a distributed 'off-cloud' population of stars located in the north of the dark clouds that is twice as numerous as the historically known 'on-cloud' population that is concentrated around the densest cores. By comparing the location of the stars in the HR-diagram with evolutionary models, we show that these two populations are younger than 10Myr. Based on their infrared excess emission, we identify 28 Class II and 215 Class III stars among the sources with available infrared photometry, and we conclude that the frequency of Class∼II stars (i.e. `disc-bearing' stars) in the on-cloud region is twice as large as compared to the off-cloud population. The distance derived for the Corona-Australis region based on this updated census is d=149.4+0.4-0.4pc, which exceeds previous estimates by about 20 pc. In this paper we provide the most complete census of stars in Corona-Australis available to date that can be confirmed with Gaia data. Furthermore, we report on the discovery of an extended and more evolved population of young stars beyond the region of the dark clouds, which was extensively surveyed in the past. Description: Properties of the 313 cluster members in Corona-Australis, membership probability of all sources in the field and empirical isochrone of the association, derived using data from Gaia DR2. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file tablea1.dat 190 313 Properties of the 313 cluster members tablea2.dat 138 10618999 Membership probabilities for all sources tablea3.dat 40 400 Empirical isochrone -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018) Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 7 A7 --- --- [GaiaDR2] 8- 26 I19 --- GaiaDR2 Source identifier from Gaia-DR2 catalogue 29- 30 I2 h RAh Right Ascension (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 32- 33 I2 min RAm Right Ascension (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 35- 39 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 43 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 44- 45 I2 deg DEd Declination (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 47- 48 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 50- 53 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (ICRS) at Ep=2015.5 57- 62 F6.3 mas/yr pmRA Proper motion in right ascension, pmRA*cosDE 64- 68 F5.3 mas/yr e_pmRA Proper motion in right ascension error 71- 77 F7.3 mas/yr pmDE Proper motion in declination 79- 83 F5.3 mas/yr e_pmDE Proper motion in declination error 86- 90 F5.3 mas plx Parallax 92- 96 F5.3 mas e_plx Parallax error 99-104 F6.4 --- prob Membership probability 107-111 F5.1 pc d Distance 113-116 F4.1 pc E_d Upper uncertainty for the distance 119-122 F4.1 pc e_d Lower uncertainty for the distance 124-127 F4.1 km/s VRA Velocity in right ascension 129-131 F3.1 km/s E_VRA Velocity in right ascension (upper uncertainty) 134-136 F3.1 km/s e_VRA Velocity in right ascension (lower uncertainty) 139-143 F5.1 km/s VDE Velocity in declination 145-147 F3.1 km/s E_VDE Velocity in declination (upper uncertainty) 150-152 F3.1 km/s e_VDE Velocity in declination (lower uncertainty) 155-163 A9 --- Pop Population 166-190 A25 --- YSO YSO subclass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 9 A9 --- --- [Gaia DR2 -] 10- 28 I19 --- GaiaDR2 Source identifier from Gaia-DR2 catalogue 30- 50 E21.17 --- P050 [0/1] membership probability for pin=0.5 52- 72 E21.17 --- P060 [0/1] membership probability for pin=0.6 74- 94 E21.17 --- P070 [0/1] membership probability for pin=0.7 96-116 E21.17 --- P080 [0/1] membership probability for pin=0.8 118-138 E21.17 --- P090 [0/1] membership probability for pin=0.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2- 18 F17.14 mag RPmag RP magnitude from Gaia-DR2 21- 40 F20.17 mag G-RP G-RP color from Gaia-DR2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Phillip Galli, phillip.galli(at)u-bordeaux.fr
(End) Phillip Galli [LAB, France], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 15-Jan-2020
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