Rapid spectroscopic variability of Classical T Tauri stars

K.W. Smith1, G.F. Lewis2, I.A. Bonnell 3,
P.S. Bunclark 4 and J.P. Emerson 1

1 QMW, London
2 SUNY Stony Brook
3 IoA, Cambridge
4 RGO, Cambridge


We obtained intermediate dispersion spectra of each of six classical T Tauri stars over the course of five nights. Our spectra were of intermediate resolution and were separated in time by approximately one hour. We use these to test the hypothesis that lines of different excitation energy vary in some correlated way, with a time delay between them, caused by the nature of the physical process giving rise to the variability and the geometry of the emitting regions.


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