Color evolution of HBC 722 in the post-outburst phase

  • Baek, Giseon (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Pak, Soojong (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Green, Joel D. (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Lee, Jeong-Eun (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Bae, Kyoung Min (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Jeon, Yiseul (CEOU/Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Changsu (CEOU/Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (CEOU/Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Meschiari, Stefano (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin)
  • Published : 2013.10.08

Abstract

We present collections of optical photometry for a pre-main sequence star HBC 722. It showed large amplitude optical outburst (${\Delta}V=4.7$ mag) in 2010 and classified as a FU Orionis type object. We have been observing HBC 722 from 2011 April to 2013 May, using Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse (CQUEAN) attached to the 2.1 m Otto Struve telescope at the McDonald Observatory. Time-series monitoring data (minute-scale interval) were obtained in SDSS r, i and z bands to see short-scale behaviors as well as trace the long-term brightness changes after the eruption in 2010. Interestingly, it started to brighten from 2011 early summer and became brighter than the first outburst peak in our 2013 May observation. We expect that the recovering phase would result from re-increase of disk accretion rate, might attribute to distinctive short-scale color features. In this presentation, we report long- and short-timescale optical behaviors of HBC 722 in the post-outburst phase.

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