Variability and magnetic activity in pre-Main Sequence stars. The study: “CSI2264: Simultaneous optical and X-ray variability in the pre-main sequence stars of NGC2264. II: Photometric variability, magnetic activity, and rotation in class III objects and stars with transition disks” of M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) recently appeared in A&A

Pre-Main Sequence stars are young stars whose cores are not dense and hot enough to ignite the thermonuclear reactions that will power them for the rest of their evolution. These stars are sorted in three classes: the youngest stars are the class I sources, still embedded in an accreting envelope of gas; class II stars have dispersed their accreting envelope

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Accretion funnels connecting the young stars in Orion and their protoplanetary disks. The study “X-Ray Flare Oscillations Track Plasma Sloshing along Star-disk Magnetic Tubes in the Orion Star-forming Region” of F. Reale published on ApJ

di Mario Giuseppe Guarcello    ( segui mguarce)     A recent study by a team of researchers of INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Palermo, the University of Palermo, and the University of Madrid, recently published on the Astrophysical Journal, shows that  enormous flares in the young stars in Orion are due to large magnetic loops connecting the stars and their protoplanetary disks,

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