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星周过渡层的质量:光蒸发模型的观测支持

The Masses of Transition Circumstellar Disks: Observational Support for Photoevaporation Models

Lucas A. Cieza, Jonathan J. Swift, Geoffrey S. Mathews, Jonathan P. Williams

摘要:

我们报告了26颗具有演化内盘的前主序星(PMS)的深亚毫米阵列观测。这些观测测量了由红外光谱能量分布(SED)确定的内盘(r < 10 AU)耗散的每个阶段的外盘(r ~20-100 AU)的质量。我们发现,只有高中红外过量的目标被检测到,并在1-5 M_Jup范围内的磁盘质量,而我们的大多数对象仍然未被检测到的灵敏度水平的M_DISK ~0.2-1.5 M_Jup。为了将这些结果置于更广泛的背景下,我们收集了公开可用的数据,以构建超过120颗PMS恒星的光学毫米波长SED。我们发现,近红外和中红外辐射保持光学厚的对象,其磁盘质量跨越2个数量级(~0.5-50 M_Jup)。总之,这些结果意味着,在一般情况下,内部磁盘开始消散后,外盘已显着耗尽的质量。这为光蒸发是驱动盘演化的主要过程之一提供了强有力的支持。

英文摘要:

We report deep Sub-Millimeter Array observations of 26 pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars with evolved inner disks. These observations measure the mass of the outer disk (r ~20-100 AU) across every stage of the dissipation of the inner disk (r < 10 AU) as determined by the IR spectral energy distributions (SEDs). We find that only targets with high mid-IR excesses are detected and have disk masses in the 1-5 M_Jup range, while most of our objects remain undetected to sensitivity levels of M_DISK ~0.2-1.5 M_Jup. To put these results in a more general context, we collected publicly available data to construct the optical to millimeter wavelength SEDs of over 120 additional PMS stars. We find that the near-IR and mid-IR emission remain optically thick in objects whose disk masses span 2 orders of magnitude (~0.5-50 M_Jup). Taken together, these results imply that, in general, inner disks start to dissipate only after the outer disk has been significantly depleted of mass. This provides strong support for photoevaporation being one of the dominant processes driving disk evolution.

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