The Relationship between Accretion and Ionised Ejection among Young Stellar Objects in the Coronet Cluster

Ghosh, Arpan, Galván-Madrid, Roberto, Ramírez-Arellano, Johanan, Carrasco-González, Carlos, Costigan, Gráinne, Ramsay, Suzanne, Manara, Carlo, Forbrich, Jan, Liu, Hauyu Baobab and Takami, Michihiro (2026) The Relationship between Accretion and Ionised Ejection among Young Stellar Objects in the Coronet Cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 546 (3). ISSN 0035-8711
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We present results from a coordinated, multi-epoch near-infrared and centimeter radio survey of young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Coronet, aimed at probing the connection between mass accretion and ionised mass loss. Using VLT-KMOS, we detect Br$γ$ emission in 5 of the 26 targets, which also exhibit 3.3-cm continuum emission in VLA images, consistent with partially ionised jets. For seven additional sources, stringent flux upper limits were obtained. The derived accretion and ionised mass-loss rates for class I and class II YSOs follow a sublinear correlation $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{ion}} \propto \dot{M}_{\mathrm{acc}}^{0.3}$, consistent with previous results for class II YSOs but extended here to earlier stages. Multi-epoch observations reveal modest variability in both tracers but no clear temporal correlation between accretion and ejection within timescales of a few months. The ratio $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{ion}}/\dot{M}_{\mathrm{acc}}$ shows an anti-correlation with $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{acc}}$, increasing with time from class I YSOs to class II YSOs, suggesting an increase in jet-launching efficiency or ionisation fraction with evolution. These findings support a direct connection between accretion and outflow across the $\sim$ Myr timescale of YSO evolution, while highlighting the complexity of their short-term interplay.


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