Young stars in gas-dust disks. I. Fomalhaut

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012ap.....55...53r&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp.53-69

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Spectrophotometry, Photometry, Microvariability — Individual, Α Psa

Scientific paper

This is a single-factor analysis of the variance of the average quasimonochromatic magnitudes of Fomalhaut, α PsA, in the 325-1080 nm spectral range for different observation seasons collected in the Pulkovo Spectrophotometric Data Base (PSDB). The overall variance of the data combined over several seasons is decomposed into components characterizing the randomness and variability factors separately. The influence of the variability factor on the variance of the average magnitudes is found to be significant with a confidence coefficient exceeding 95%. The estimated amplitude of the variability is 0m.02-0m.03. It is proposed that the main causes of the variability are photospheric pulsations (changes in the temperature by ~40 K and in the radius by ~0.5%) and variations in the scattering of radiation by dust in the circumstellar disk owing to the large scale inhomogeneity of the disk. Data from the Hipparcos catalog indicate a variability of the star in the Vt band with an amplitude of ~0m.017 and a period of 20.6 days. It is suggested that the disk surrounding the star contains a region with an elevated concentration of particles which periodically eclipses the star as it undergoes Kepler rotation. Another explanation is also proposed: transit of an unknown planet across the star's disk. The existence of a planet at a distance of ~0.2 a.u. will require further confirmation.

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