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arXiv 2007.06642astro-ph.SR
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吸积Tauri T星的磁性

The magnetic obliquity of accreting T Tauri stars

Pauline McGinnis, Jérôme Bouvier, Florian Gallet

摘要:

经典金牛T星(CTTS)通过磁层从它们的圆盘中吸积物质。吸积流的几何形状强烈地依赖于磁性,即,旋转轴和磁轴之间的角度。我们的目标是在10个CTTS的样品中推导出磁性的分布。为此,我们监测了这些恒星光谱中HeI $λ$ 5876线沿其自转周期的径向速度变化。HeI产生于吸积激波中,靠近磁极。当磁轴和自转轴不对齐时,这条线的径向速度会受到恒星自转的调制。调制幅度与恒星的投影旋转速度$v\sin i$和热点的纬度有关。通过从我们的谱中导出$v\sin i$和HeI $λ$ 5876径向速度曲线,我们从而获得了磁密度的估计。我们发现在我们的样品中平均结晶度为11.4 $^{\circ}$,均方根色散为5.4 $^{\circ}$。因此磁轴看起来与这些吸积的金牛座T星的旋转轴几乎一致,但并不完全一致,这与光谱偏振法的研究有些不一致,光谱偏振法发现了几个CTTS的显著不一致($\gtrsim 20^{\circ}$)。这可能只是低数量统计的影响,也可能是由于我们样本的选择偏差。我们讨论了我们的样本可能受到的可能的偏见。我们还发现初步的证据表明,磁密度可能会有所不同,根据恒星内部,可能有一个显着的差异完全对流和部分辐射的恒星。

英文摘要:

Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) accrete material from their discs through their magnetospheres. The geometry of the accretion flow strongly depends on the magnetic obliquity, i.e., the angle between the rotational and magnetic axes. We aim at deriving the distribution of magnetic obliquities in a sample of 10 CTTSs. For this, we monitored the radial velocity variations of the HeI$λ$5876 line in these stars' spectra along their rotational cycle. HeI is produced in the accretion shock, close to the magnetic pole. When the magnetic and rotational axes are not aligned, the radial velocity of this line is modulated by stellar rotation. The amplitude of modulation is related to the star's projected rotational velocity, $v\sin i$, and the latitude of the hotspot. By deriving $v\sin i$ and HeI$λ$5876 radial velocity curves from our spectra we thus obtain an estimate of the magnetic obliquities. We find an average obliquity in our sample of 11.4$^{\circ}$ with an rms dispersion of 5.4$^{\circ}$. The magnetic axis thus seems nearly, but not exactly aligned with the rotational axis in these accreting T Tauri stars, somewhat in disagreement with studies of spectropolarimetry, which have found a significant misalignment ($\gtrsim 20^{\circ}$) for several CTTSs. This could simply be an effect of low number statistics, or it may be due to a selection bias of our sample. We discuss possible biases that our sample may be subject to. We also find tentative evidence that the magnetic obliquity may vary according to the stellar interior and that there may be a significant difference between fully convective and partly radiative stars.

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