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再论星周光蒸发:无尘情况

Photoevaporation of Circumstellar Disks Revisited: The Dust-Free Case

Kei E. I. Tanaka, Taishi Nakamoto, Kazuyuki Omukai

摘要:

由恒星电离辐射引起的光蒸发被认为在年轻恒星周围的星盘扩散中起着重要作用。由Hollenbach等人开发的无尘圆盘的质量损失模型目前被认为是一种传统的模型,并已被用于各种各样的研究。然而,这个模型中的速率是由所谓的1+1D近似电离辐射传输得出的,该近似假设漫射辐射在垂直于圆盘的方向上传播。在这项研究中,我们重新无尘磁盘的光蒸发通过解决二维轴对称辐射转移稳态磁盘。与传统模型不同的是,我们确定直接恒星辐射比在磁盘表面的扩散场更重要。电离边界处的径向密度分布由指数为-3/2的单次幂律表示,而不是传统的双次幂律。对于这种分布,整个星盘的光蒸发率可以写成中心恒星电离光子发射率Phi_EUV和星盘外半径r_d的函数,如下所示:Mdot_PE = 5.4 x 10^-5 x(Phi_EUV/10^49 sec^-1)^1/2 x(r_d/1000 AU)^1/2 Msun/yr。这个新的速率取决于外盘半径,而不是传统模型中的引力半径,这是由于外盘环对质量损失的贡献增加所致。此外,我们讨论了它的应用,以今天以及原始恒星的形成。

英文摘要:

Photoevaporation by stellar ionizing radiation is believed to play an important role in the dispersal of disks around young stars. The mass loss model for dust-free disks developed by Hollenbach et al. is currently regarded as a conventional one and has been used in a wide variety of studies. However, the rate in this model was derived by the crude so-called 1+1D approximation of ionizing radiation transfer, which assumes that diffuse radiation propagates in a direction vertical to the disk. In this study, we revisit the photoevaporation of dust-free disks by solving the 2D axisymmetric radiative transfer for steady-state disks. Unlike that solved by the conventional model, we determine that direct stellar radiation is more important than the diffuse field at the disk surface. The radial density distribution at the ionization boundary is represented by the single power-law with an index -3/2 in contrast to the conventional double power-law. For this distribution, the photoevaporation rate from the entire disk can be written as a function of the ionizing photon emissivity, Phi_EUV, from the central star and the disk outer radius, r_d, as follows: Mdot_PE = 5.4 x 10^-5 x (Phi_EUV/10^49 sec^-1)^1/2 x (r_d/1000 AU)^1/2 Msun/yr. This new rate depends on the outer disk radius rather than on the gravitational radius as in the conventional model, caused by the enhanced contribution to the mass loss from the outer disk annuli. In addition, we discuss its applications to present-day as well as primordial star formation.

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