Discovery of an old photoevaporating disk in sigma Orionis

Details Discovery of an old photoevaporating disk in sigma Orionis Discovery of an old photoevaporating disk in sigma Orionis

2009-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0457v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted by A&A; 4 pages, 2 figures

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The photoevaporation of circumstellar disks is a powerful process in the disk dissipation at the origin of the Orion proplyds. This Letter reports the first detection of a photoevaporating disk in the final but long-lasting phase of its evolution. The disk is associated to a low-mass T Tauri member of the sigma Orionis Cluster. It is characterized by a very low (if any) accretion rate and by a tenuous (Mloss ~ 10^{-9} Msun/yr) photoevaporation wind, which is unambiguously detected in the optical spectrum of the object. The wind emits strong forbidden lines of [SII] and [NII] because the low-mass star is close to a powerful source of ionizing photons, the O9.5 star sigma Ori.

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