Identification and parameter determination of F-type Herbig stars from LAMOST DR8

TL;DR

This study identifies 20 F-type Herbig stars from LAMOST DR8, derives their physical parameters, analyzes their spectral energy distributions, and investigates their disk properties and evolutionary stages.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive catalog of F-type Herbig stars with detailed physical parameters and disk property analysis, including the discovery of an outbursting EXor Herbig star.

Findings

19 F-type Herbig stars are Class II YSOs.

Hotter Herbig stars tend to have larger infrared excesses.

Detected an outbursting EXor Herbig star with strong emission lines.

Abstract

We identify 20 F-type Herbig stars and provide a list of 22 pre-main-sequence candidates from LAMOST DR8. The effective temperature, distance, extinction, stellar luminosity, mass, and radius are derived for each Herbig star based on optical spectra, photometry, Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, and pre-main-sequence evolutionary tracks. According to spectral energy distributions, 19 F-type Herbig stars belong to Class II YSOs, and one belongs to the flat-spectrum class. Four have Spitzer IRS spectra, of which three show extremely weak polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emissions, and three with both amorphous and crystalline silicate emissions share the similar parameters and are at the same evolutionary stage. We detect a solar-nearby outbursting EXor Herbig star J034344.48+314309.3, possible precursor of a Herbig Ae star. Intense emission lines of HI, HeI, OI, NaI, and CaII originated from the rapid accretion during the outbursts are detected in its optical spectra, and silicate emission features are detected in its infrared spectrum. We also make a statistic analysis on the disk properties of all known Herbig stars using the defined infrared spectral indices. The proportion of Herbig stars with moderate infrared excesses decreases as effective temperature increases. The majority of the precursors (F-, G-, or K- type) have moderate infrared excesses. Hotter Herbig stars tend to have a larger proportion with large infrared excesses. The trends may be due to the fact that hotter stars have larger areas of re-emitting dust, although there is some scatter due to the particularities of each disk.