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经典金牛T星中亚分钟周期的缺失

The absence of sub-minute periodicity in classical T Tauri stars

H. M. Günther, N. Lewandowska, M. P. G. Hundertmark, H. Steinle, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, D. Buckley, S. Crawford, D. O'Donoghue, P. Vaisanen

摘要:

经典金牛T星(CTTS)是年轻的晚型天体,仍然从星周盘吸积物质。解析处理和数值模拟预测了恒星表面吸积激波的不稳定性。我们搜索的变化低于几分钟的时间尺度在CTTS TW Hya和AA头。TW Hya是用南部非洲大型望远镜(SALT)上的SALTICAM在巴尔末跳跃周围的窄带滤光片中观测到的。观测是在狭缝模式下进行的,它提供了约0.1 s的时间分辨率。对于AA Tau,我们使用OPTIMA进行了观测,OPTIMA是一种具有更好时间分辨率的单光子计数设备。小规模的变化通常持续几秒钟,但没有检测到明显的周期性。我们对光变曲线的脉冲部分设定了99%的置信上限. TW Hya在340 nm滤波器中0.02-3 Hz和380 nm滤波器中0.1-3 Hz的频率范围内的相对振幅低于0.001。对于0.02-50 Hz,AA Tau的相应值是0.005的振幅。相关的时间尺度表明,冲击波不稳定性不应该直接在我们的光学和紫外观测,但预测的振荡会引起可观察到的红化的变化。我们讨论了磁场如何稳定吸积激波。

英文摘要:

Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) are young, late-type objects, that still accrete matter from a circumstellar disk. Analytical treatments and numerical simulations predict instabilities of the accretion shock on the stellar surface. We search for variability on timescales below a few minutes in the CTTS TW Hya and AA Tau. TW Hya was observed with SALTICAM on the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in narrow-band filters around the Balmer jump. The observations were performed in slit mode, which provides a time resolution of about 0.1 s. For AA Tau we obtained observations with OPTIMA, a single photon-counting device with even better time resolution. Small-scale variability typically lasts a few seconds, however, no significant periodicity is detected. We place a 99 % confidence upper limit on the pulsed fraction of the lightcurves. The relative amplitude is below 0.001 for TW Hya in the frequency range 0.02-3 Hz in the 340 nm filter and 0.1-3 Hz in the 380 nm filter. The corresponding value for AA Tau is an amplitude of 0.005 for 0.02-50 Hz. The relevant timescales indicate that shock instabilites should not be seen directly in our optical and UV observations, but the predicted oscialltions would induce observable variations in the reddening. We discuss how the magnetic field could stabilise the accretion shock.

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