Mid-infrared imaging of the young binary star Hen 3-600: Evidence for a dust disk around the primary

Details Mid-infrared imaging of the young binary star Hen 3-600: Evidence for a dust disk around the primary Mid-infrared imaging of the young binary star Hen 3-600: Evidence for a dust disk around the primary

1999-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905173v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 2 PostScript figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312148

We present high-resolution mid-infrared observations of the nearby late-type young binary system Hen 3-600. The binary, at a distance of $\sim$ 50 pc, could be a member of the TW Hydrae Association, the nearest known group of young stars, with an age of a few million years. Our images make it possible for the first time to determine which star in the pair, separated by 1.4'', harbors the mid-infrared excess detected by IRAS. In the near-infrared, where the radiation is primarily photospheric, Hen 3-600A (M3) and Hen 3-600B (M3.5) have a flux ratio of 1.6. At 4.8$\mu$m, 10.8$\mu$m, and 18.2$\mu$m, the primary becomes increasingly dominant over the secondary, suggesting that most of the circumstellar dust in the system resides around Hen 3-600A. Comparison of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Hen 3-600A to the median SED of classical T Tauri stars suggests that its disk may be truncated by the secondary and provides tentative evidence for a central disk hole. The distribution of dust in the Hen 3-600 system may provide important clues to the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks in close binaries.

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