Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-12-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
38 pages (including figures) in gzip-ed uuencoded compressed postscript format. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/177205
We report high spectral resolution observations of the CO vibrational overtone emission from the young stellar object 1548C27; our observations include both the CO(2-0) and CO(5-3) bandhead regions. These data and similar observations of the young stellar object WL16, reported in a previous contribution to this journal, provide some of the most compelling evidence to date for the existence of inner disks around young stars. We describe the simple procedure that we use to synthesize bandhead emission from disks including the effect of thermal dissociation of CO and non-LTE excitation of the vibrational levels. Using this spectral synthesis procedure to extract the kinematics and physical properties of the emitting gas from the overtone data, we show how these high signal-to-noise data are also powerful probes of the stellar and inner disk properties of these systems. Our modeling is consistent with the identification of WL16 and 1548C27 as Herbig AeBe stars with stellar masses of approximately 2 and 4 solar masses, respectively. Thus, the kinematic signature of rotating disks in the overtone spectra of these sources provides strong support for the role of accretion disks in the formation of intermediate mass stars. For both WL16 and 1548C27, we interpret our modeling results as indicating that the overtone emission arises from a temperature inversion region in the inner disk atmosphere. We also find evidence for suprathermally broadened lines and are able to place useful constraints on the radial temperature and column density distributions of the CO line-formation region of the disk atmosphere.
Carr John
Glassgold Al
Najita Joan
Shu Frank
Tokunaga Alan
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