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| Paper: |
Age Spreads and Composite Spectra |
| Volume: |
287, Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum |
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133 |
| Authors: |
Littlefair, S. P.; Naylor, T.; Retter, A.; O'Toole, S. |
| Abstract: |
It is becoming increasingly clear that the colour magnitude diagrams of some associations cannot be fitted with a single isochrone. However, the inferred age spreads may not be real. One possibility is that accretion introduces an apparent age spread into a co-eval population. This, however, requires accretion rates above those observed in T Tauri stars. We present observations of composite spectra objects in ρ Oph, suggesting that these objects are accreting mass at a rate high enough to affect their inferred ages, thus producing the apparent age spreads observed in young stellar associations. |
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