arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0704.0307astro-ph
收藏

年轻双星UZ Tau E中环双星盘的周期吸积

Periodic accretion from a circumbinary disk in the young binary UZ Tau E

Eric L. N. Jensen, Saurav Dhital, Keivan G. Stassun, Jenny Patience, William Herbst, Frederick M. Walter, Michal Simon, Gibor Basri, ;

摘要:

近距离的前主序星双星预计会清除其原行星盘中的中心空洞,但物质从环双星盘穿过间隙流到单个环星盘的程度尚不清楚。在具有偏心轨道的双星中,外盘的周期性扰动被预测会引起穿过间隙的质量流,导致随着双星周期而变化的吸积。这种吸积可以通过观测表现为光度的周期性变化。在这里,我们提出了一个搜索这样的周期性吸积在前主序光谱双星UZ Tau E。我们提出了跨越三年的BVRI测光;我们发现UZ Tau E的亮度明显具有周期性,最佳拟合周期为19.16 +/- 0.04天。这与光谱双星周期19.13天一致,在这里通过分析新的和现有的径向速度数据进行了改进。UZ Tau E的亮度显示出显著的随机变化,但整体的周期模式是亮度增强的宽峰,跨越了双星轨道周期的一半以上。H-α线的变化不是明显的周期性,但考虑到数据的稀疏性,不排除某些周期性成分。光度的变化是在良好的协议与预测模拟的双星与轨道参数类似的UZ头E,这表明周期性吸积确实发生从环双星盘,补充内盘,并可能延长的时间尺度,他们可能形成行星。

英文摘要:

Close pre-main-sequence binary stars are expected to clear central holes in their protoplanetary disks, but the extent to which material can flow from the circumbinary disk across the gap onto the individual circumstellar disks has been unclear. In binaries with eccentric orbits, periodic perturbation of the outer disk is predicted to induce mass flow across the gap, resulting in accretion that varies with the binary period. This accretion may manifest itself observationally as periodic changes in luminosity. Here we present a search for such periodic accretion in the pre-main-sequence spectroscopic binary UZ Tau E. We present BVRI photometry spanning three years; we find that the brightness of UZ Tau E is clearly periodic, with a best-fit period of 19.16 +/- 0.04 days. This is consistent with the spectroscopic binary period of 19.13 days, refined here from analysis of new and existing radial velocity data. The brightness of UZ Tau E shows significant random variability, but the overall periodic pattern is a broad peak in enhanced brightness, spanning more than half the binary orbital period. The variability of the H-alpha line is not as clearly periodic, but given the sparseness of the data, some periodic component is not ruled out. The photometric variations are in good agreement with predictions from simulations of binaries with orbital parameters similar to those of UZ Tau E, suggesting that periodic accretion does occur from circumbinary disks, replenishing the inner disks and possibly extending the timescale over which they might form planets.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑