Proper motion study of the ROSAT selected WTTS candidates around Taurus-Auriga

Astrometric study of the T Tauri stars (TTS) candidates and non-TTS X-ray sources around Tau-Aur Li, Hu 132 (1998) 173], based on the Hipparcos and the ACT Reference Catalogue, is presented in this paper. The ROSAT selected X-ray sources are found to have complicated nature. A few of them are associated with the Tau-Aur or the Orion Star Forming Regions (SFR). Some, with distances similar to that of Tau-Aur but indicating discrepant proper motions, are probable or solid Pleiades supercluster members and other late type young active stars of unresolved nature, the latter are more likely formed in rapidly moving cloudlets, or else have originated from different sites rather than Tau-Aur and dispersed to the present locations. A number of the non-TTS X-ray sources studied are possible Hyades cluster members. Some TTS candidates could be foreground pre-main sequence stars or actually young dwarfs not yet depleted their Lithium.Under the hypothesis that the sources studied are representative of the ROSAT selected TTS candidates discovered in the outskirts of the Tau-Aur region, we conclude that only up to one thirds of the WTTS candidates could be expected to be physically associated with the Tau-Aur association. Along with the parallax and proper motion analysis of the non-TTS X-ray sources around the Tau-Aur SFR, our study suggests that the most majority of the young active X-ray sources, within an angular diameter of about 30^∘ toward the Tau-Aur SFR, are spatially belonging to mainly 4 different subgroups according to the apparent discordance of their distances and/or proper motions.