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连接年轻恒星天体之间的X射线和红外线变化:排除盘波动的潜在来源

Connecting X-ray and Infrared Variability among Young Stellar Objects: Ruling out potential sources of disk fluctuations

Kevin Flaherty, James Muzerolle, Scott Wolk, George Rieke, Robert Gutermuth, Zoltan Balog, William Herbst, S. Thomas Megeath, Elise Furlan

摘要:

在主序前恒星周围的盘的红外辐射在几天到几周的过程中的变化似乎是常见的,但盘结构变化的物理原因并不受限制。在这里,我们提出了协调监测一个年轻的集群与斯皮策和钱德拉空间望远镜,旨在研究的物理来源的变化。在2011年秋天,我们在30天的时间内获得了钱德拉ACIS测光的10个时期,大约3天的节奏与斯皮策的20个时期[3.6],[4.5]在40天内的测光大约2天的节奏的IC 348集群。这种节奏使我们能够搜索红外辐射对高能通量变化的周至月的反应。我们没有发现强有力的证据之间的直接联系的X射线和红外线的变化在这些时间尺度之间的39个星团成员与拱星盘。在红外线和X射线光变曲线的形状之间,或者在X射线的大小和红外线可变性之间没有显著的相关性。在发生过X射线耀斑的恒星中,没有一颗恒星在耀斑发生后的几天到几周的时间尺度上表现出红外测光的相关变化。这种联系的缺乏意味着行星盘形成区域的X射线加热并不显著,尽管我们不能排除红外辐射的快速或瞬时变化。

英文摘要:

Variability in the infrared emission from disks around pre-main sequence stars over the course of days to weeks appears to be common, but the physical cause of the changes in disk structure are not constrained. Here we present coordinated monitoring of one young cluster with the Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes aimed at studying the physical source of the variability. In fall 2011 we obtained ten epochs of Chandra ACIS photometry over a period of 30 days with a roughly 3 day cadence contemporaneous with 20 epochs of Spitzer [3.6],[4.5] photometry over 40 days with a roughly 2 day cadence of the IC 348 cluster. This cadence allows us to search for week to month long responses of the infrared emission to changes in the high-energy flux. We find no strong evidence for a direct link between the X-ray and infrared variability on these timescales among 39 cluster members with circumstellar disks. There is no significant correlation between the shape of the infrared and X-ray light curves, or between the size of the X-ray and infrared variability. Among the stars with an X-ray flare none showed evidence of a correlated change in the infrared photometry on timescales of days to weeks following the flare. This lack of connection implies that X-ray heating of the planet forming region of the disk is not significant, although we cannot rule out rapid or instantaneous changes in infrared emission.

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