FU Orionis resolved by infrared long baseline interferometry at a 2-AU scale

Details FU Orionis resolved by infrared long baseline interferometry at a 2-AU scale FU Orionis resolved by infrared long baseline interferometry at a 2-AU scale

1998-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808326v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/311688

We present the first infrared interferometric observations of a young stellar object with a spatial projected resolution better than 2 AU. The observations were obtained with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer. FU Ori exhibits a visibility of V^2 =0.72 +/- 0.07 for a 103 +/- 5 m projected baseline at lambda = 2.2 microns. The data are consistent on the spatial scale probed by PTI both with a binary system scenario (maximum magnitude difference of 2.7 +/- 0.5 mag and smallest separation of 0.35 +/- 0.05 AU) and a standard luminous accretion disk model (approx. accretion rate of 6e-5 Mo/yr) where the thermal emission dominates the stellar scattering, and inconsistent with a single stellar photosphere.

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