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VLTI/AMBER在WR118中揭示了一个可能的尘埃风车星云

VLTI/AMBER unveils a possible dusty pinwheel nebula in WR118

Florentin Millour, Thomas Driebe, Olivier Chesneau, José Groh, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Koji Murakawa, Keiichi Ohnaka, Dieter Schertl, Gerd Weigelt

摘要:

大多数WC 9亚型的沃尔夫-拉叶星(WR)都有一个尘埃状的星周包层,但尘埃是如何在其恶劣的环境中形成的仍然是一个争论的问题。在少数情况下,已检测到灰尘信封的风车状结构。因此,有人认为,所有尘埃WR星的尘埃形成可能与双星系统中的碰撞风有关。我们探测了深深嵌入WR星WR 118的星周尘埃壳的最内部区域。我们进行了光谱干涉观测,使用欧洲南方天文台的甚大望远镜干涉仪的琥珀仪器在低光谱分辨率模式(R = 35)。K波段的观测是用三架1.8米望远镜获得的,投影基线在9.2米和40.1米之间。在高空间频率下,琥珀色的包络线呈现出突出的波瓣,表明包络线包含一个或多个具有大的局部强度梯度的区域。强的闭合相位信号清楚地表明WR 118的拱星包络只能用不对称的强度分布来描述。我们发现,在低倾角的风车星云是一致的AMBER数据。其大小为13.9 ± 1.1mas。WR 118可能拥有一个风车星云,这表明该系统具有双星性质。根据我们的最佳模型,该系统的周期约为60天(d=3 kpc),使WR 118成为迄今为止已知的周期最短的风车星云。

英文摘要:

Most Wolf-Rayet stars (WR) of WC9 sub-type exhibit a dusty circumstellar envelope, but it is still a matter of debate how dust can form in their harsh environment. In a few cases, a pinwheel-like structure of the dusty envelope has been detected. Therefore, it has been suggested that dust formation in all dusty WR stars might be linked to colliding winds in a binary system. We probed the innermost region of the circumstellar dust shell of the deeply embedded WR star WR 118. We carried out spectro-interferometric observations using the AMBER instrument of ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer in low-spectral resolution mode (R = 35). The K-band observations were obtained with three 1.8 m telescopes spanning projected baselines between 9.2 and 40.1 m. At high spatial frequencies, the AMBER visibilities exhibit a prominent lobe, indicating that the envelope contains one or several zones with a large local intensity gradient. The strong closure phase signal clearly shows that the circumstellar envelope of WR 118 can only be described by an asymmetric intensity distribution. We show that a pinwheel nebula seen at low inclination is consistent with the AMBER data. Its size was determined to be 13.9+-1.1 mas. WR 118 possibly harbors a pinwheel nebula, which suggests a binary nature of the system. According to our best model, the period of the system would be ~60 days (for d=3 kpc), making WR 118 the shortest-period pinwheel nebula known so far.

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