Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...208.4913w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #49.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.126
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Over the past 5 years we surveyed the STIS coronagraphic imaging sample of PMS stars with the Goddard Fabry-Perot (GFP) interferometer at the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope to determine what fraction of the stars drive jets, whether there is any difference in behavior for a group of intermediate-mass stars as compared with T Tauri stars, and to search for evolutionary effects. Compared to broad band imaging, the GFP achieves an emission-line nebulosity-to-star contrast gain of between 500 and 3000, depending upon choice of Fabry-Perot etalon, over a field which is 1.67' in radius. To date, we have detected jets associated with classical T Tauri stars spanning a factor of 280 in mass accretion rate in approximately 50% of the STIS coronagraphic imaging sample. Jets have not been detected in any of the stars with mass accretion rates less than 10$^{-8.5}$ solar masses/year, including objects with IR spectral energy distributions indicating deficits of warm, near-stellar dust. The GFP is also equipped with a simple Lyot coronagraph which allows us to search for similar outflows around brighter objects. To date, we have detected jets or Herbig-Haro knots associated with 5 Herbig Ae stars, all younger than 8 Myr, for a detection fraction which is similar to the T Tauri survey. No jets have been detected for Herbig Ae stars with IR SEDs indicating the presence of central cavities in the disks.
Endres Manuel
Grady Carol
Hilton Gene
Williger Gerard
Woodgate Bruce E.
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