Star-disk interactions in the strongly accreting T Tauri star S CrA N

dc.creatorHugo Nowacki
dc.creatorEvelyne Alecian
dc.creatorKarine Perraut
dc.creatorBonnie Zaire
dc.creatorColin Folsom
dc.creatorKim Pouilly
dc.creatorJerome Bouvier
dc.creatorRajeev Manick
dc.creatorGeorge Pantolmos
dc.creatorAlana Sousa
dc.creatorCatherine Dougados
dc.creatorJerome Bouvier
dc.creatorGaitee Hussain
dc.creatorSilvia Helena Paixao Alencar
dc.creatorJean-Baptiste Le Bouquin
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T23:56:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-08T23:22:46Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T23:56:34Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-10
dc.format.mimetypepdf
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347145
dc.identifier.issn0004-6361
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/79457
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.relation.ispartofAstronomy & astrophysics
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectEstrelas - Campos magnéticos
dc.subjectEstrelas T Tauri
dc.subjectAstronomia
dc.subject.otherStars: variables: T Tauri
dc.subject.otherStars: individual: S CrA N
dc.subject.otherHerbig Ae/Be
dc.subject.otherStars: magnetic field
dc.subject.otherTechniques: spectroscopic
dc.subject.otherTechniques: polarimetric
dc.subject.otherAccretion
dc.subject.otherAccretion disks
dc.titleStar-disk interactions in the strongly accreting T Tauri star S CrA N
dc.typeArtigo de periódico
local.citation.epage16
local.citation.spage1
local.citation.volume678
local.description.resumoContext. Classical T Tauri stars are thought to accrete material from their surrounding protoplanetary disks through funnel flows along their magnetic field lines. The classical T Tauri stars with high accretion rates (∼10−7 M⊙ yr−1) are ideal targets for testing this magnetospheric accretion scenario in a sustained regime. Aims. We constrained the accretion-ejection phenomena around the strongly accreting northern component of the S CrA young binary system (S CrA N) by deriving its magnetic field topology and its magnetospheric properties, and by detecting ejection signatures, if any. Methods. We led a two-week observing campaign on S CrA N with the ESPaDOnS optical spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We recorded 12 Stokes I and V spectra over 14 nights. We computed the corresponding least-squares deconvolution (LSD) profiles of the photospheric lines and performed Zeeman-Doppler imaging (ZDI). We analyzed the kinematics of noticeable emission lines, namely He I λ5876 and the first four lines of the Balmer series, which are known to trace the accretion process. Results. We found that S CrA N is a low-mass (0.8 M⊙) young (∼1 Myr) and fully convective object exhibiting strong and variable veiling (with a mean value of 7 ± 2), which suggests that the star is in a strong accretion regime. These findings could indicate a stellar evolutionary stage between Class I and Class II for S CrA N. We reconstructed an axisymmetric large-scale magnetic field (∼70% of the total energy) that is primarily located in the dipolar component, but has significant higher poloidal orders. From the narrow emission component radial velocity curve of He I λ5876, we derived a stellar rotation period of P* = 7.3 ± 0.2 days. We found a magnetic truncation radius of ∼2 R* which is significantly closer to the star than the corotation radius of ∼6 R*, suggesting that S CrA N is in an unstable accretion regime. That the truncation radius is quite smaller than the size of the Brγ line emitting region, as measured with the GRAVITY interferometer (∼8 R*), supports the presence of outflows, which is nicely corroborated by the line profiles presented in this work. Conclusions. The findings from spectropolarimetry are complementary to those provided by optical long-baseline interferometry, allowing us to construct a coherent view of the innermost regions of a young, strongly accreting star. The strong and complex magnetic field reconstructed for S CrA N is inconsistent with the observed magnetic signatures of the emission lines associated with the postshock region, however. We recommend a multitechnique synchronized campaign of several days to place more constrains on a system that varies on a timescale of about one day.
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5762-0249
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-7179
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-757X
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9328-9530
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9023-7890
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9023-7890
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-2959
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7450-6712
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-7038
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7788-3727
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7397-8972
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-936X
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-3783
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0493-4674
local.publisher.countryBrasil
local.publisher.departmentICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA
local.publisher.initialsUFMG
local.url.externahttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2023/10/aa47145-23.pdf

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