Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.6015g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #60.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1396
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
We present HST/STIS white light coronagraphic imaging data for the optically bright, classical T Tauri star, SU Aur. Previous optical imagery has detected "cometary" nebulosity beginning north of the star and wrapping around to the west and ultimately south (Nakajima & Golimowski 1995). The STIS data demonstrate that this nebulosity consists of a fan of nebulosity similar to that seen around R CrA, with wisp and clump structure down to the resolution limit of the telescope. This nebulosity has an opening angle of 70 degrees and a vertical extent of at least 12.2" (1842 AU at d=151 pc). The fan is visible in WFPC2 V, R, and I images, in addition to the STIS broad-band (0.2-1.0 micron) data, indicating detection of reflection nebulosity. A distinctive feature of the HST imagery of SU Aur is the presence of radial streamers seen at V and in the STIS data. The central streamer, which roughly bisects the fan of nebulosity, extends at least 8" (1200 AU) from the star at PA=295+/-1 degrees. The STIS data demonstrate that this feature is accompanied, on the opposite side of the star, by a string of bow-shaped nebulosities, extending 7.3" (1100 AU) from the star at PA=114+/-1 degrees. We interpret the fan of nebulosity as arising from the walls of a partially exposed outflow cavity. The scale and morphology of the central streamer and the PA=114 string of knots are consistent with the appearance of bipolar outflows as seen by STIS. SU Aur is a 4 Myr old (de Warf et al. 1998), 1.9+/-0.1 solar mass star. The bipolar outflow reported here is the second collimated outflow detected in association with an isolated, several million year old intermediate-mass star. Given the small number of coronagraphically imaged intermediate-mass stars, this result indicates that collimated outflows, similar to those routinely detected in association with lower mass T Tauri stars, appear to be common among their higher mass analogs and to persist for much of the star's pre-main sequence lifetime. Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, as part of proposal 9136, the Perth Observatory, and the Thuringer Landessternwarte 'Karl Schwarzchild' Tautenberg. Support for this proposal was provided by NASA through a grant from the STScI, which is operated by the AURA Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.
Biggs James
Clampin Marc
Grady Carol
Grinin Vladimir
Henning Th
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