Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-10-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
27 pages (22 text and 5 figures) of uuencoded, gzipped Postscript
Scientific paper
10.1086/177060
We present arcsecond resolution mid-infrared (8--13 $\mu$m) images and photometry of four young stellar objects (YSOs)~--- L1551-IRS5, HL~Tau, AS~205, and AS~209 (V1121~Oph)~--- taken with the Berkeley Mid-Infrared Camera. For AS~205, a known T Tauri binary, we also present near-infrared JHK images and HKL$^{\prime}$ speckle imaging data. All three single stars are unresolved in our mid-IR images. Our data is the first to resolve in the mid-IR both components of the close binary AS~205 (projected separation $\sim$1.3$^{\prime \prime}$ (210~A.U.)). AS~205~North is the IR brighter star in our data while published observations find it to be the optically fainter star. Pre-main sequence evolutionary models suggest the AS~205 system is non-coeval; we discuss possible explanations for this result and comment on the circumstellar material and evolutionary status of this young binary. Nearly all of our objects exhibit changes in their mid-IR flux in measurements separated by intervals of days up to many years; the variations range from 30--300\%. We speculate that the cause of the variability lies in the accretion disks of these objects; the data suggest disk accretion rate fluctuations of nearly an order of magnitude. The existence of large mid-IR variability argues that simultaneous multiwavelength observations are needed for a proper analysis of YSO spectral energy distributions.
Arens John F.
Ball Roger
Ghez Andrea M.
Graham James R.
Jernigan Garret J.
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