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The Initial Conditions to Star Formation: Low Mass Stars at Low Metallicity

Martino Romaniello, Nino Panagia, Massimo Robberto

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0410150

Abstract

We have measured the present accretion rate of roughly 800 low-mass (~1-1.4 Mo) pre-Main Sequence stars in the field of SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The stars with statistically significant Balmer continuum and Halpha excesses are measured to have accretion rates larger than about 1.5x10-8 Mo/yr at an age of 12-16 Myrs. For comparison, the time scale for disk dissipation observed in the Galaxy is of the order of 6 Myrs.

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