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行星形成带中分子气体的结构和动力学:CRIRES光谱天体测量巡天

The structure and dynamics of molecular gas in planet-forming zones: A CRIRES spectro-astrometric survey

Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Geoffrey A. Blake, Alain Smette

摘要:

本文利用甚大望远镜上的高分辨率红外成像光谱仪CRIRES对16个原行星盘内部区域的分子气体进行了光谱天文测量。使用CRIRES的光谱天文测量测量线发射的空间范围,精确到毫弧秒以下,或在观测目标的距离上小于0.2天文单位。样品由围绕恒星的富含气体的盘组成,其光谱型从K到A。光谱天体测量信号的性质将源分为两个不同的唯象类:一类显示出清晰的开普勒天体测量光谱,另一类的天体测量特征主要由具有强烈非开普勒(径向)运动的气体所控制。与用干涉测量法测定的近红外连续谱发射类似,我们发现开普勒源中CO谱线发射区的大小服从一个大小-光度关系式:$R_CO L_*^0.5。非开普勒光谱天体测量特征可能表明广角盘风的存在。风的中心特征是一个强大的亚开普勒速度场,这是由于风压将气体向外驱动时角动量守恒。我们构造了一个参数化的二维盘+风模型,它再现了观测到的CO光谱和天体测量的特征。模拟的风表明质量损失率在10^-10至10^-8 Msol/yr之间。我们建议一个统一的模型,所有磁盘有缓慢的分子风,但质量损失率的大小决定的程度,中红外分子线占主导地位的风相对于开普勒磁盘表面。

英文摘要:

We present a spectro-astrometric survey of molecular gas in the inner regions of 16 protoplanetary disks using CRIRES, the high resolution infrared imaging spectrometer on the Very Large Telescope. Spectro-astrometry with CRIRES measures the spatial extent of line emission to sub-milliarcsecond precision, or <0.2 AU at the distance of the observed targets. The sample consists of gas-rich disks surrounding stars with spectral types ranging from K to A. The properties of the spectro-astrometric signals divide the sources into two distinct phenomenological classes: one that shows clear Keplerian astrometric spectra, and one in which the astrometric signatures are dominated by gas with strong non-Keplerian (radial) motions. Similarly to the near-infrared continuum emission, as determined by interferometry, we find that the size of the CO line emitting region in the Keplerian sources obeys a size-luminosity relation as $R_CO L_*^0.5. The non-Keplerian spectro-astrometric signatures are likely indicative of the presence of wide-angle disk winds. The central feature of the winds is a strong sub-Keplerian velocity field due to conservation of angular momentum as the wind pressure drives the gas outwards. We construct a parametrized 2-dimensional disk+wind model that reproduces the observed characteristics the observed CO spectra and astrometry. The modeled winds indicate mass-loss rates of >10^-10 to 10^-8 Msol/yr. We suggest a unifying model in which all disks have slow molecular winds, but where the magnitude of the mass-loss rate determines the degree to which the mid-infrared molecular lines are dominated by the wind relative to the Keplerian disk surface.

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