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由磁层吸积提供能量的金牛T星的Turbulence驱动极风

Turbulence-driven Polar Winds from T Tauri Stars Energized by Magnetospheric Accretion

Steven R. Cranmer

摘要:

前主序星被观测到被吸积流和某种风或喷流包围。马特和普德里茨最近的研究表明,如果经典的金牛座T型恒星表现出质量损失率约为吸积率0.1倍的恒星风,那么恒星风可以带走足够的角动量,使恒星不会因吸积而不切实际地旋转起来。本文提出了一套初步的理论模型的吸积驱动风的极地地区的金牛座T星。这些模型是基于最近发表的太阳日冕加热和风加速的自洽模拟。除了对流驱动的MHD湍流(在太阳的情况下占主导地位),我们增加了另一个来源的波能量在光球,是由等离子体的影响,在邻近的通量管进行磁层吸积。根据MHD波产生的远场论定量确定的这一附加能量足以产生至少为吸积速率0.01倍的类金牛座T质量损失速率。虽然仍然低于有效去除角动量所需的水平一个数量级,但这些是金牛座T风的第一个自洽模型,与一系列观测质量损失约束相当吻合。最年轻的恒星风模型受到阿尔芬波压的支持,它们具有低温(“扩展色球”),并且它们可能不稳定,形成远离恒星的反向传播激波和团块。

英文摘要:

Pre-main-sequence stars are observed to be surrounded by both accretion flows and some kind of wind or jet-like outflow. Recent work by Matt and Pudritz has suggested that if classical T Tauri stars exhibit stellar winds with mass loss rates about 0.1 times their accretion rates, the wind can carry away enough angular momentum to keep the stars from being spun up unrealistically by accretion. This paper presents a preliminary set of theoretical models of accretion-driven winds from the polar regions of T Tauri stars. These models are based on recently published self-consistent simulations of the Sun's coronal heating and wind acceleration. In addition to the convection-driven MHD turbulence (which dominates in the solar case), we add another source of wave energy at the photosphere that is driven by the impact of plasma in neighboring flux tubes undergoing magnetospheric accretion. This added energy, determined quantitatively from the far-field theory of MHD wave generation, is sufficient to produce T Tauri-like mass loss rates of at least 0.01 times the accretion rate. While still about an order of magnitude below the level required for efficient angular momentum removal, these are the first self-consistent models of T Tauri winds that agree reasonably well with a range of observational mass loss constraints. The youngest modeled stellar winds are supported by Alfven wave pressure, they have low temperatures ("extended chromospheres"), and they are likely to be unstable to the formation of counterpropagating shocks and clumps far from the star.

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