Light curve of the week: YSO?

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The pattern seen in this light curve could be due to the variability of a young stellar object (YSO), which is often related to a disc obscuring some of the stars light and/or material accreting onto the star. Studies of the symmetries in the LCs of YSOs can help us understand the environment around the star.

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About Nora Eisner

Project leader of the Zooniverse citizen science project Planet Hunters TESS and PhD Student at the University of Oxford.

One response to “Light curve of the week: YSO?”

  1. George Kountouris's avatar
    George Kountouris says :

    Are we believing that it is a protoplanetary disc?

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