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Chamaeleon I中年轻恒星天体间长期红外线变率的Spitzer观测

Spitzer Observations of Long Term Infrared Variability Among Young Stellar Objects in Chamaeleon I

Kevin M. Flaherty, Lindsay DeMarchi, James Muzerolle, Zoltan Balog, William Herbst, S. Thomas Megeath, Elise Furlan, Robert Gutermuth

摘要:

红外线的变化在年轻的恒星天体中很常见,观测发现每天到每周的波动只有十分之几个星等。天基观测可以产生高度采样的红外线曲线,但由于航天器的方位,通常限于大约一个月的总基线。在这里,我们目前的观察变色龙我集群的低deceases使得它可以观察到的斯皮策太空望远镜超过200天的时间。我们观察30个年轻的恒星物体,每天的节奏,以更好地采样变化的时间尺度上的几个月。我们发现这种变化是常见的,发生在约80%的检测到的集群成员。[3.6]-[4.5]许多源在200天内的颜色变化介于灭绝和盘发射波动之间。凭借我们的高节奏和长基线,我们可以推导出覆盖两个数量级频率的功率谱密度曲线,并在低频处发现显著的功率,直到我们200天调查的边界。如此长的时间尺度很难用盘和恒星磁场之间的相互作用所驱动的变化来解释,这种相互作用具有数天至数周的动力学时间尺度。最可能的解释是结构或温度波动遍布内部~0.5 au的磁盘,这表明内在的尘埃结构是高度动态的。

英文摘要:

Infrared variability is common among young stellar objects, with surveys finding daily to weekly fluctuations of a few tenths of a magnitude. Space-based observations can produce highly sampled infrared light curves, but are often limited to total baselines of about a month due to the orientation of the spacecraft. Here we present observations of the Chameleon I cluster whose low declination makes it observable by the Spitzer space telescope over a 200 day period. We observe 30 young stellar objects with a daily cadence to better sample variability on timescales of months. We find such variability is common, occurring in ~80% of the detected cluster members. The change in [3.6]-[4.5] color over 200 days for many of the sources falls between that expected for extinction and fluctuations in disk emission. With our high cadence and long baseline we can derive power spectral density curves covering two orders of magnitude in frequency and find significant power at low frequencies, up to the boundaries of our 200 day survey. Such long timescales are difficult to explain with variations driven by the interaction between the disk and stellar magnetic field, which has a dynamical timescale of days to weeks. The most likely explanation is either structural or temperature fluctuations spread throughout the inner ~0.5 au of the disk, suggesting that the intrinsic dust structure is highly dynamic.

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