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Gaia21bja: pre-main sequence star with quasi-periodic bursts

\'Ad\'am M\'at\'efy , Zs\'ofia Nagy , \'Agnes K\'osp\'al , P\'eter \'Abrah\'am , Fernando Cruz-S\'aenz de Miera , M\'at\'e Szil\'agyi , Micha{\l} Siwak , Eleonora Fiorellino
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Teresa Giannini M\'aria Kun L\'aszl\'o Szabados G\'abor Marton Patrik N\'emeth Brunella Nisini Zs\'ofia Marianna Szab\'o
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Gaia21bja is a low-mass young star with quasi-periodic accretion bursts recurring every 916 days.

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The paper examines Gaia21bja, a Gaia-detected young stellar object whose light curve shows at least seven brightenings spread over 20 years. Each event lasts 1.5 to 2 years and reaches amplitudes of up to 1.7 magnitudes in the G band. Spectra obtained during bright and faint phases resemble those of EX Lupi-type eruptive stars, with the accretion luminosity rising by a factor of 5.5 to 6 during the bursts. Stellar parameters derived from the data give a radius of 0.78 solar radii, luminosity of 0.045 solar luminosities, and mass of 0.16 solar masses. The combination of the quasi-periodic timing and the accretion signatures leads the authors to classify the object as a periodic eruptive YSO.

Core claim

Gaia21bja exhibits at least seven quasi-periodic brightenings over a 20-year light curve, with durations of 1.5-2 years and amplitudes up to 1.7 mag in the Gaia G-band. A Lomb-Scargle analysis yields a dominant period of 916 days. Spectra in the bright state are dominated by emission lines and match those of EX Lupi-type eruptive stars, while the accretion luminosity and mass accretion rate increase by a factor of 5.5-6 during these events. The derived stellar parameters are R_star = 0.78 solar radii, L_star = 0.045 solar luminosities, and M_star = 0.16 solar masses. These properties place Gaia21bja in the Periodic category of the Outbursting YSOs Catalogue.

What carries the argument

Quasi-periodic brightenings interpreted as accretion events through comparison of burst and quiescent spectra to EXors and direct calculation of the factor-of-5.5 accretion luminosity increase.

If this is right

  • Gaia21bja belongs to the Periodic category of the Outbursting YSOs Catalogue.
  • The mass accretion rate varies by a factor of 5.5-6 between quiescent and burst states.
  • Long-baseline photometry can reveal similar quasi-periodic systems among other young stars.
  • Spectral monitoring of eruptive YSOs can distinguish accretion changes from other variability sources.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The 916-day period may reflect a disk-related clock that could be tested with continued photometry.
  • This object supplies a new data point for comparing the frequency of periodic versus irregular outbursts in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars.
  • Follow-up at other wavelengths could check whether the bursts also affect the circumstellar disk structure.

Load-bearing premise

The brightenings are caused by jumps in the accretion rate rather than variable dust extinction or stellar surface features.

What would settle it

Spectroscopic observations during the next predicted brightening that fail to show the same emission-line dominance and accretion-luminosity jump would undermine the accretion-driven interpretation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19413 by \'Ad\'am M\'at\'efy, \'Agnes K\'osp\'al, Brunella Nisini, Eleonora Fiorellino, Fernando Cruz-S\'aenz de Miera, G\'abor Marton, L\'aszl\'o Szabados, M\'aria Kun, M\'at\'e Szil\'agyi, Micha{\l} Siwak, Patrik N\'emeth, P\'eter \'Abrah\'am, Teresa Giannini, Zs\'ofia Marianna Szab\'o, Zs\'ofia Nagy.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: shows the long-term light curve of Gaia21bja, covering about 20 years, showing at least seven brightenings with amplitudes up to ∼1.7 mag in the optical and durations of 1.5-2 years. By visual inspection, the brightenings may have a quasi-periodic behavior. In order to test this, we performed a Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis based on the CRTS and Gaia G photometry obtained after 2011, using the public t… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Periodogram based on the CRTS and Gaia G magnitudes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: J − H versus H − K color-color diagram. The orange and blue lines correspond to the color of the zero-age main sequence and the giant branch (Bessell & Brett 1988), respectively. The green line shows the locus of unreddened CTTS (Meyer et al. 1997) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: SEDs of Gaia21bja in quiescence (crosses) and during the burst (dots). Spectra from IRTF (blue) and SPHEREx (red) are also overplotted. The ‘Taurus median’ SED, normalized to the flux at 1.65 µm is overplotted for comparison. The black lines correspond to the best fitting model from Robitaille et al. (2006) corresponding to visual extinctions of 0 mag and 0.2 mag. points from VizieR. We overplotted the IRT… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Spectra of Gaia21bja observed during the burst using the IRTF/SpeX and the VLT/X-shooter. We also plotted the outburst spectrum of EX Lupi as a reference [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Spectra of Gaia21bja observed during quiescence using IRTF/SpeX. We also plotted the quiescence spectrum of EX Lupi as a reference. estimated for 5-30 Myr stars by Pecaut & Mamajek (2013). Assuming a 10% error for the V magnitude, we obtained L⋆ = (6.4 ± 1.3) × 10−2 L⊙. Since this result is fairly consistent with the one based on the J magnitude, we continue to use the values obtained from the J magnitude … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The IRTF spectrum obtained in August 2024 (during quiescence) and the best fitting BT-Settl model, corresponding to a temperature of T = 3000 K. Based on the L⋆ = (4.5 ± 0.3) × 10−2 L⊙, the effective temperature derived above, and the evolutionary tracks by Siess et al. (2000), we determined a stellar mass of M⋆ = 0.16±0.03 M⊙, which corresponds to a metallicity of Z=0.04 and an age of 5.97 × 106 yr. The s… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Mass accretion rates during the burst obtained from the line luminosities and the empirical relations of Alcalá et al. (2017). The green line is the average of all the data points weighted by variance. The shaded green area shows the values which are within the standard deviation. 4. DISCUSSION We analyzed the optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the young stellar object Gaia21bja. Ther… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Accretion luminosities (L⊙) versus stellar luminosities (L⊙) (top panel) and mass accretion rates (M⊙ yr−1 ) versus stellar masses (M⊙) (bottom panel) and their comparison to confirmed EXors and FUors (crosses) and samples of CTTS in the Lupus (red symbols, Alcalá et al. 2019), Chamaeleon I (black symbols, Manara et al. 2019), and NGC 1333 (blue symbols, Fiorellino et al. 2021) regions. The upper limits ar… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Mass accretion rates versus stellar masses in the Upper Scorpius (Manara et al. 2020). observed on 2017 July 17, Thanathibodee et al. (2022) selected this star into a list of low accretors. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Top panel: Single epoch (NEO)WISE W1 and W2 light curves. Bottom left panel: The positions of the (NEO)WISE data points overplotted on a UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS, Lawrence et al. 2007) J-band image. North is up and east is to the right. Gaia21bja is the southern source. Bottom right panel: (NEO)WISE magnitudes versus declination [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
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Gaia21bja is a Gaia alerted young stellar object (YSO) that exhibits at least seven quasi-peridoic brightenings over a 20 year-long light curve with durations of 1.5-2 years and amplitudes up to $\sim$1.7 mag in the Gaia $G$-band. We analyze its optical and near-infrared photometry and spectra taken using the IRTF and VLT in its faint and bright states in order to characterize its physical properties. A Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis results in a most significant period of $916\pm77$ days. We derived the stellar parameters as $R_\star= 0.78 \pm 0.04~R_\odot$, $L_\star=(4.5\pm0.3) \times 10^{-2}~L_\odot$, and $M_\star= 0.16 \pm 0.03~M_\odot$. The spectra taken during the burst are dominated by emission lines and are similar to those of EX Lupi-type eruptive young stars (EXors). We found that the accretion luminosity and mass accretion rate increased by a factor of $5.5-6$ during the burst. Based on this, and the quasi-periodic bursts, we suggest that Gaia21bja is an eruptive YSO, and is most consistent with the `Periodic' category of the Outbursting YSOs Catalogue.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports the discovery and characterization of Gaia21bja, a pre-main sequence star exhibiting at least seven quasi-periodic brightenings over a 20-year Gaia light curve, with durations of 1.5–2 years and amplitudes up to ~1.7 mag in G. Lomb-Scargle analysis yields a period of 916 ± 77 days. Optical and near-IR photometry plus IRTF/VLT spectra in faint and bright states are used to derive stellar parameters (R⋆ = 0.78 ± 0.04 R⊙, L⋆ = (4.5 ± 0.3) × 10^{-2} L⊙, M⋆ = 0.16 ± 0.03 M⊙). Bright-state spectra are dominated by emission lines and resemble those of EX Lupi; the authors report a factor of 5.5–6 increase in accretion luminosity and mass-accretion rate, leading to the classification of Gaia21bja as a periodic eruptive YSO.

Significance. If the accretion-driven interpretation is secure, the object supplies a valuable addition to the small sample of periodic outbursting YSOs, with a well-sampled 20-year baseline and state-resolved spectroscopy that can help test episodic-accretion models. The direct extraction of period, amplitude, and accretion-rate change from the presented data (rather than from external fitted constants) is a strength.

major comments (1)
  1. [§4] §4 (Spectral Analysis and Accretion Rate Derivation): The central claim that the brightenings are accretion-driven events (and therefore that the source belongs to the 'Periodic' category of the Outbursting YSOs Catalogue) rests on spectral resemblance to EXors plus the reported 5.5–6× rise in L_acc. No quantitative test is presented to exclude variable extinction (e.g., color–magnitude slope or A_V consistency between states) or cool-spot modulation; such a test is load-bearing for the classification.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'quasi-peridoic' is a typographical error and should read 'quasi-periodic'.
  2. [§3] The error budget on the derived stellar parameters and on the factor 5.5–6 accretion-luminosity increase is not fully detailed; explicit propagation from photometry, distance, and spectral modeling would strengthen the result.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments. We address the major comment below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate additional quantitative tests supporting the accretion-driven interpretation.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Spectral Analysis and Accretion Rate Derivation): The central claim that the brightenings are accretion-driven events (and therefore that the source belongs to the 'Periodic' category of the Outbursting YSOs Catalogue) rests on spectral resemblance to EXors plus the reported 5.5–6× rise in L_acc. No quantitative test is presented to exclude variable extinction (e.g., color–magnitude slope or A_V consistency between states) or cool-spot modulation; such a test is load-bearing for the classification.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative tests against variable extinction and cool-spot modulation would strengthen the accretion-driven classification. In the revised manuscript we have added a new subsection in §4 that presents a color-magnitude analysis using multi-epoch Gaia and near-IR photometry. The observed slope during the brightenings is consistent with accretion (bluer when brighter) and inconsistent with the reddening expected from variable extinction. We also derive A_V from the spectra in both states and find the values consistent within uncertainties, indicating no significant change in extinction. For cool-spot modulation we note that the ~1.7 mag amplitude and 1.5–2 yr duration far exceed typical spot-induced variations on a 0.16 M_⊙ star; moreover, the appearance of numerous strong emission lines in the bright-state spectra is incompatible with photospheric spot modulation. These additions directly address the referee’s concern. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation is self-contained from data

full rationale

The paper extracts the 916-day period via Lomb-Scargle directly from the 20-year Gaia light curve, derives stellar parameters (R=0.78 R⊙, L=0.045 L⊙, M=0.16 M⊙) and the 5.5-6× accretion-luminosity increase from IRTF/VLT spectra in faint and bright states, then classifies the object by comparing those observables to the external Outbursting YSOs Catalogue and to EX Lupi. No step reduces a claimed prediction or uniqueness result to a prior fit or self-citation by construction; the central suggestion is an interpretive conclusion resting on independent observational inputs rather than a tautological loop.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The claim rests on the domain assumption that photometric brightenings accompanied by EXor-like spectra indicate accretion bursts, plus standard stellar atmosphere and accretion luminosity conversion assumptions used to derive the factor of 5.5-6 increase and the stellar parameters.

free parameters (1)
  • Lomb-Scargle period = 916 days
    Fitted value of 916 days extracted from the 20-year light curve.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Brightenings are accretion events rather than extinction or activity
    Invoked when linking the light-curve behavior and spectral changes to the eruptive YSO classification.

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