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活跃吸积的金牛T星:DG Tau和XZ Tau中10 μ m硅酸盐特征的变化

Variations of the 10 um Silicate Features in the Actively Accreting T Tauri Stars: DG Tau and XZ Tau

Jeffrey S. Bary, Jarron M. Leisenring, Michael F. Skrutskie

摘要:

利用斯皮策太空望远镜上的红外光谱仪,我们观测到附近金牛座-御夫座恒星形成区中11颗活跃吸积的金牛座T星的多个时期。在第2和第3周期的1.5年中,共收集了88个低分辨率中红外光谱。这个多时期的调查结果表明,10微米的硅酸盐复杂的光谱中的两个源- DG Tau和XZ Tau -经历了显着的变化与硅酸盐的功能越来越弱和强,超过一个月和一年的时间尺度。较短的时间尺度变化的一天到一周的时间尺度内没有检测到测量通量的错误。该数据集的时间分辨率覆盖范围不足以确定变化是否是周期性的。纯发射组成模型的硅酸盐复合物在每个时代的DG头和XZ头光谱提供不良的拟合所观察到的硅酸盐功能。这些结果与以前的小组,试图只适合这些来源的单历元观测结果。简单的两个温度,两个板坯模型具有相似的成分成功地再现了所观察到的硅酸盐特征的变化。这些模型暗示了硅酸盐复合物减少的自吸收起源,而不是排放尘埃颗粒的人口组成变化。我们讨论了几种情况下产生这种变化,包括磁盘阴影,垂直混合,磁盘加热的变化,和磁盘风事件与吸积爆发。

英文摘要:

Using the Infrared Spectrograph aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, we observed multiple epochs of 11 actively accreting T Tauri stars in the nearby Taurus-Auriga star forming region. In total, 88 low-resolution mid-infrared spectra were collected over 1.5 years in Cycles 2 and 3. The results of this multi-epoch survey show that the 10 um silicate complex in the spectra of two sources - DG Tau and XZ Tau - undergoes significant variations with the silicate feature growing both weaker and stronger over month- and year-long timescales. Shorter timescale variations on day- to week-long timescales were not detected within the measured flux errors. The time resolution coverage of this data set is inadequate for determining if the variations are periodic. Pure emission compositional models of the silicate complex in each epoch of the DG Tau and XZ Tau spectra provide poor fits to the observed silicate features. These results agree with those of previous groups that attempted to fit only single-epoch observations of these sources. Simple two-temperature, two-slab models with similar compositions successfully reproduce the observed variations in the silicate features. These models hint at a self-absorption origin of the diminution of the silicate complex instead of a compositional change in the population of emitting dust grains. We discuss several scenarios for producing such variability including disk shadowing, vertical mixing, variations in disk heating, and disk wind events associated with accretion outbursts.

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