Disk and wind interaction in the young stellar object MWC 297 spatially resolved with VLTI/AMBER

Details Disk and wind interaction in the young stellar object MWC 297 spatially resolved with VLTI/AMBER Disk and wind interaction in the young stellar object MWC 297 spatially resolved with VLTI/AMBER

2005-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510350v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages; to be published in A&A; Acceptance day: 11/10/2005

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053924

The young stellar object MWC 297 has been observed with the VLT interferometer equipped with the AMBER instrument. MWC 297 has been spatially resolved in the continuum with a visibility of 0.50 as well as in the Br gamma emission line where the visibility decrease to a lower value of 0.33. This change in the visibility with the wavelength can be interpreted by the presence of an optically thick disk responsible for the visibility in the continuum and of a stellar wind traced by Br gamma and whose apparent size is 40% larger. We validate this interpretation by building a model of the stellar environment that combines a geometrically thin, optically thick accretion disk model consisting of gas and dust, and a latitude-dependent stellar wind outflowing above the disk surface. The continuum emission and visibilities obtained from this model are fully consistent with the interferometric AMBER data. They agree also with existing optical, near-infrared spectra and other broad-band near-infrared interferometric visibilities. A picture emerges in which MWC 297 is surrounded by an equatorial flat disk that is possibly still accreting and an outflowing wind which has a much higher velocity in the polar region than at the equator. [abridged]

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