Few Skewed Disks Found in First Closure-Phase Survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars

Details Few Skewed Disks Found in First Closure-Phase Survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars Few Skewed Disks Found in First Closure-Phase Survey of Herbig Ae/Be stars

2006-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606052v1

Astrophys.J.647:444-463,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/505340

Using the 3-telescope IOTA interferometer on Mt. Hopkins, we report results from the first near-infrared (lambda=1.65 mu) closure-phase survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs). These closure phases allow us to unambiguously detect departures from centrosymmetry (i.e., skew) in the emission pattern from YSO disks on the scale of ~4 milliarcseconds, expected from generic ``flared disk'' models. Six of fourteen targets showed small, yet statistically-significant, non-zero closure phases, with largest values from the young binary system MWC 361-A and the (pre-main sequence?) Be star HD 45677. Our observations are quite sensitive to the vertical structure of the inner disk and we confront the predictions of the ``puffed-up inner wall'' models of Dullemond, Dominik, and Natta (DDN). Our data support disks models with curved inner rims because the expected emission appear symmetrically-distributed around the star over a wide range of inclination angles. In contrast, our results are incompatible with the models possessing vertical inner walls because they predict extreme skewness (i.e., large closure phases) from the near-IR disk emission that is not seen in our data. In addition, we also present the discovery of mysterious H-band ``halos'' (~5-10% of light on scales 0.01-0.50 arcsec) around a few objects, a preliminary ``parametric imaging'' study for HD 45677, and the first astrometric orbit for the young binary MWC 361-A.

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