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Infrared studies of T Tauri stars in star-forming regions have suggected
that initial disk frequency if rather high and that the disk lifetimes
are relatively short 
Myr.
From JHKL photometry, Haish, Lada, & Lada (2001) obtained the fraction
of disk-bearing stars for 6 star formation regions.
L band excess emission indicates an accompanied disk.
The fraction is a decreasing function of age of the cluster as
in Figure 1.6.
This figure shows clearly that the disk fraction is initially very high
(
) and rapidly decreases with increasing cluster age.
In 3 Myr a half of the disk stars lose their disks.
Overall disk lifetime is estimated as 
Myr.
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