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arXiv 1902.07048astro-ph.SR
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经典金牛座T星日冕的新观点:星周盘中耀斑活动的影响

A new view of the corona of classical T Tauri stars: Effects of flaring activity in circumstellar disks

Salvatore Colombo, Salvatore Orlando, Giovanni Peres, Fabio Reale, Costanza Argiroffi, Rosaria Bonito, Laurent Ibgui, Chantal Stehlé

摘要:

经典金牛座T星(CTTS)是年轻的低质量恒星,从其拱星盘吸积质量。它们的特点是X射线观测显示的高水平日冕活动。这种活动可能会影响磁盘的稳定性和星周环境。在这里,我们调查,如果一个激烈的日冕活动,由于耀斑发生在靠近吸积盘可能会扰动内部磁盘的稳定性,破坏磁盘的内部,并可能引发吸积现象的速率与观察到的。通过三维磁流体动力学模拟,我们模拟了被吸积盘包围的磁化原恒星。我们探讨的情况下,其特点是一个偶极子加上八极恒星磁场配置和不同密度的磁盘或不同水平的耀斑活动。由于模拟强烈的耀斑活动,我们观察到的几个环路的形成,连接恒星的磁盘,所有这些环路建立了一个热的扩展日冕与X射线光度与典型的CTTS中观察到的值。近盘区强烈的耀斑活动对盘的稳定性有很强的扰动作用。耀斑触发了超压波,超压波穿过圆盘并改变其结构。吸积漏斗可能是由耀斑活动触发的,因此有助于恒星的质量吸积率。通过模拟计算得出的吸积速率在10^-10到10^-9兆太阳年^-1之间。吸积柱可以受到耀斑的扰动,它们可以相互作用,可能合并成更大的流。因此,吸积模式可能相当复杂:气流高度不均匀,具有复杂的密度结构,并且聚集在一起

英文摘要:

Classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) are young low-mass stellar objects accreting mass from their circumstellar disks. They are characterized by high levels of coronal activity as revealed by X-ray observations. This activity may affect the disk stability and the circumstellar environment. Here we investigate if an intense coronal activity due to flares occurring close to the accretion disk may perturb the inner disk stability, disrupt the inner part of the disk and, possibly, trigger accretion phenomena with rates comparable with those observed. We model a magnetized protostar surrounded by an accretion disk through 3D magnetohydrodinamic simulations. We explore cases characterized by a dipole plus an octupole stellar magnetic field configuration and different density of the disk or by different levels of flaring activity. As a result of the simulated intense flaring activity, we observe the formation of several loops that link the star to the disk; all these loops build up a hot extended corona with an X-ray luminosity comparable with typical values observed in CTTSs. The intense flaring activity close to the disk can strongly perturb the disk stability. The flares trigger overpressure waves which travel through the disk and modify its configuration. Accretion funnels may be triggered by the flaring activity, thus contributing to the mass accretion rate of the star. Accretion rates synthesized from the simulations are in a range between 10^-10 and 10^-9M_sun yr^-1 The accretion columns can be perturbed by the flares and they can interact with each other, possibly merging together in larger streams. As a result, the accretion pattern can be rather complex: the streams are highly inhomogeneous, with a complex density structure, and clumped

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