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用H I Pf-beta测量原行星盘吸积

Measuring Protoplanetary Disk Accretion with H I Pf-beta

Colette Salyk, Gregory J. Herczeg, Joanna M. Brown, Geoffrey A. Blake, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

摘要:

在这项工作中,我们介绍了使用H I Pfund-β(4.6538微米)作为一个示踪剂的质量吸积从原行星盘到年轻的恒星。Pf-β是在NIRSPEC和CRIRES的CO基本发射调查中偶然发现的,样本量为120颗年轻恒星,检测到Pf-β发射。使用一个子样本的磁盘与先前测得的吸积光度,我们表明,Pf-beta线光度是很好的相关吸积光度在至少三个数量级的范围内。我们使用这种相关性,以获得吸积光度为所有120个目标,其中65个是以前未报道的文献。我们还报告了67个目标的吸积率,其中16个以前未测量过。我们的大样本量和探测高消光值的能力允许在不同类型的磁盘之间进行相对公正的比较。我们发现,在我们的样本中的过渡盘具有低于平均的Pf-beta线光度,因此吸积光度,在一个轻微的显着水平。我们还表明,高的Pf-beta等效宽度是一个签名的过渡磁盘与高内部磁盘的气体/尘埃比。相比之下,我们发现,磁盘的签名缓慢的磁盘风的PF-β光度相媲美的其他磁盘在我们的样本。最后,我们调查吸积率阶段I磁盘,包括显着嵌入的目标。我们发现,第一阶段和第二阶段磁盘具有统计上难以区分的Pf-β线光度,这意味着类似的吸积率,和阶段I磁盘的吸积率太低,是一致的静态吸积。相反,我们的研究结果是一致的观测和理论证据表明,第一阶段的对象经历情节,而不是静止,吸积。

英文摘要:

In this work, we introduce the use of H I Pfund-beta (4.6538 micron) as a tracer of mass accretion from protoplanetary disks onto young stars. Pf-beta was serendipitously observed in NIRSPEC and CRIRES surveys of CO fundamental emission, amounting to a sample size of 120 young stars with detected Pf-beta emission. Using a subsample of disks with previously measured accretion luminosities, we show that Pf-beta line luminosity is well correlated with accretion luminosity over a range of at least three orders of magnitude. We use this correlation to derive accretion luminosities for all 120 targets, 65 of which are previously unreported in the literature. We also report accretion rates for 67 targets, 16 previously unmeasured. Our large sample size and our ability to probe high extinction values allow for relatively unbiased comparisons between different types of disks. We find that the transitional disks in our sample have lower than average Pf-beta line luminosities, and thus accretion luminosities, at a marginally significant level. We also show that high Pf-beta equivalent width is a signature of transitional disks with high inner disk gas/dust ratios. In contrast, we find that disks with signatures of slow disk winds have Pf-beta luminosities comparable to those of other disks in our sample. Finally, we investigate accretion rates for stage I disks, including significantly embedded targets. We find that stage I and stage II disks have statistically indistinguishable Pf-beta line luminosities, implying similar accretion rates, and that the accretion rates of stage I disks are too low to be consistent with quiescent accretion. Our results are instead consistent with both observational and theoretical evidence that stage I objects experience episodic, rather than quiescent, accretion.

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