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金牛座T星TW Hya在小时到年时间尺度上的光度变化

Photometric variability of the T Tauri star TW Hya on time scales of hours to years

Slavek M. Rucinski, Jaymie M. Matthews, Rainer Kuschnig, Grzegorz Pojmański, Jason Rowe, David B. Guenther, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Dimitar Sasselov, Gordon A. H.… 展开作者

Slavek M. Rucinski, Jaymie M. Matthews, Rainer Kuschnig, Grzegorz Pojmański, Jason Rowe, David B. Guenther, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Dimitar Sasselov, Gordon A. H. Walker, Werner W. Weiss

摘要:

MOST(Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars)和ASAS(All Sky Automated Survey)观测分别用于描述TW Hya在几天到7.5周和几天到8年的时间尺度上的光度变化。这两个数据集具有非常不同的不确定性和时间覆盖特性,不能直接合并,但它们表明具有“闪烁噪声”特性的全球变率谱,即振幅a ~ 1/sqrt(f),频率超过40年,范围f = 0.0003至10周/天(c/d)。在2007年MOST的连续11天,0.07 d时间分辨率的观测中,明显存在3.7 d的周期。亮度极值与Setiawan等人(2008年)同期光谱观测中检测到的周期性(3.56 d)径向速度变化的零速度交叉相吻合,并被解释为由行星引起。在2008年的第二次MOST运行中,3.56/3.7 d的周期完全消失了,这对行星的解释产生了怀疑。相反,在2 - 9天的范围内的不稳定的单周期的频谱进行了观察,使用小波分析的周期逐渐缩短的趋势,以及跟踪。TW Hya变化的周期性和整体闪烁噪声特征表明了几种机制的组合,其中占主导地位的可能与恒星周围盘的吸积过程有关。

英文摘要:

MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) and ASAS (All Sky Automated Survey) observations have been used to characterize photometric variability of TW Hya on time scales from a fraction of a day to 7.5 weeks and from a few days to 8 years, respectively. The two data sets have very different uncertainties and temporal coverage properties and cannot be directly combined, nevertheless, they suggests a global variability spectrum with "flicker noise" properties, i.e. with amplitudes a ~ 1/sqrt(f), over >4 decades in frequency, in the range f = 0.0003 to 10 cycles per day (c/d). A 3.7 d period is clearly present in the continuous 11 day, 0.07 d time resolution, observations by MOST in 2007. Brightness extrema coincide with zero-velocity crossings in periodic (3.56 d) radial velocity variability detected in contemporaneous spectroscopic observations of Setiawan et al. (2008) and interpreted as caused by a planet. The 3.56/3.7 d periodicity was entirely absent in the second, four times longer MOST run in 2008, casting doubt on the planetary explanation. Instead, a spectrum of unstable single periods within the range of 2 - 9 days was observed; the tendency of the periods to progressively shorten was well traced using the wavelet analysis. The evolving periodicities and the overall flicker-noise characteristics of the TW Hya variability suggest a combination of several mechanisms, with the dominant ones probably related to the accretion processes from the disk around the star.

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