The Connection between Submillimeter Continuum Flux and Binary Separation in Young Binaries: Evidence of Interaction between Stars and Disks

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1995-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9508099v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ in press (Feb. 10, 1996). LaTeX, 35 pages, uses AASTeX macros. Complete PostScript version with figures available from h

Scientific paper

10.1086/176814

We present 800 micron continuum photometry of pre-main-sequence binary stars with projected separations a_p < 150 AU in the Sco-Oph star-forming region. Combining our observations with published 1300 micron photometry, we find that binaries in Sco-Oph with 1 < a_p < 50--100 AU have lower submillimeter fluxes than wider binaries or single stars, as previously found for Taurus- Auriga binaries. The wide binaries and single stars have indistinguishable submillimeter flux distributions. Thus, binary companions with separations less than 50--100 AU significantly influence the nature of associated disks. We have explored the hypothesis that the reduction in submillimeter flux is the result of gaps cleared in disks by companions. Gap clearing produces the qualitative dependence of submillimeter flux on binary separation, and a simple model suggests that large gaps in disks with surface densities typical of wide-binary or single-star disks can reduce submillimeter fluxes to levels consistent with the observed limits. This model shows that the present submillimeter flux upper limits do not necessarily imply a large reduction in disk surface densities. Two-thirds of the young binaries were detected by IRAS, showing that most binaries have circumstellar disks. These fluxes place lower limits of 10^{-5} M_sun on circumstellar disk masses. The submillimeter fluxes place upper limits of 0.005 M_sun on circumbinary disk masses. Thus massive circumbinary disks are rare among binaries with separations between a few AU and 100 AU. Circumbinary disks are found around some close binaries.

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