Kinematics of ionized gas at 0.01AU of TW hya
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
The American Astronomical SocietyDate
2012-03-20Citation
10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/6
The Astrophysical Journal 748.1 (2012): 6
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0004-637X (print); 1538-4357 (online)DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/6Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/6Subjects
Circumstellar matter; Protoplanetary disks; Stars: activity; Stars: formation; Stars: individual (TW Hya); Stars: pre-main sequence; Techniques: high angular resolution; FísicaNote
The Astrophysical Journal 746.1 (2012): 6 reproduced by permission of the AASRights
© 2012 The American Astronomical Society.Abstract
We report two-dimensional spectroastrometry of Brγ emission of TW Hya to study the kinematics of the ionized gas in the star-disk interface region. The spectroastrometry with the integral field spectrograph SINFONI at the Very Large Telescope is sensitive to the positional offset of the line emission down to the physical scale of the stellar diameter (∼0.01AU). The centroid of Brγ emission is displaced to the north with respect to the central star at the blue side of the emission line, and to the south at the red side. The major axis of the centroid motion is P.A. = -20°, which is nearly equal to the major axis of the protoplanetary disk projected on the sky, previously reported by CO submillimeter spectroscopy (P.A. = -27°). The line-of-sight motion of the Brγ emission, in which the northern side of the disk is approaching toward us, is also consistent with the direction of the disk rotation known from the CO observation. The agreement implies that the kinematics of Brγ emission is accounted for by the ionized gas in the inner edge of the disk. A simple modeling of the astrometry, however, indicates that the accretion inflow similarly well reproduces the centroid displacements of Brγ, but only if the position angles of the centroid motion and the projected disk ellipse are a chance coincidence. No clear evidence of disk wind is found.
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Google Scholar:Goto, Miwa
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Carmona, Andrés
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Linz, Hendrik
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Stecklum, Bringfried
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Henning, Th H E
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Meeus, Gwendolyn
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Usuda, Tomonori
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