Cloudlet capture by Transitional Disk and FU Orionis stars

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Cloudlet capture by Transitional Disk and FU Orionis stars
المؤلفون: Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus, Küffmeier, Michael, Goicovic, Felipe, Fukagawa, Misato, Oehl, Veronika, Kramer, Manuel
المصدر: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 628, 20 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: After its formation, a young star spends some time traversing the molecular cloud complex in which it was born. It is therefore not unlikely that, well after the initial cloud collapse event which produced the star, it will encounter one or more low mass cloud fragments, which we call "cloudlets" to distinguish them from full-fledged molecular clouds. Some of this cloudlet material may accrete onto the star+disk system, while other material may fly by in a hyperbolic orbit. In contrast to the original cloud collapse event, this process will be a "cloudlet flyby" and/or "cloudlet capture" event: A Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton type accretion event, driven by the relative velocity between the star and the cloudlet. As we will show in this paper, if the cloudlet is small enough and has an impact parameter similar or less than $GM_{*}/v^2_\infty$ (with $v_\infty$ being the approach velocity), such a flyby and/or capture event would lead to arc-shaped or tail-shaped reflection nebulosity near the star. Those shapes of reflection nebulosity can be seen around several transitional disks and FU Orionis stars. Although the masses in the those arcs appears to be much less than the disk masses in these sources, we speculate that higher-mass cloudlet capture events may also happen occasionally. If so, they may lead to the tilting of the outer disk, because the newly infalling matter will have an angular momentum orientation entirely unrelated to that of the disk. This may be one possible explanation for the highly warped/tilted inner/outer disk geometries found in several transitional disks. We also speculate that such events, if massive enough, may lead to FU Orionis outbursts.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832632
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05158
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1911.05158
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv