Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26a...294..547v&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 294, no. 2, p. 547-554
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17
A Stars, B Stars, Emission Spectra, Light Scattering, Monte Carlo Method, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Radiation, Computerized Simulation, Eclipses, Linear Polarization, Luminosity, Stellar Models
Scientific paper
We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations of light scattering in the non-spherical envelopes of young stars. The parameters of the circumstellar dust envelopes have been taken from our previous single scattering modeling of color excesses and linear polarization variations during deep minima for two Herbig Ae/Be stars, UX Ori and WW Vul. The calculations of intensity and linear polarization were carried out for the wavelength range from 1000 A to 1 microns. It is shown that the contribution of the scattered light to the total radiation of a homogeneous oblate spheroidal envelope with a central star can reach 20-30% in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum near 2000-3000 A. A minimum influence of the dust envelope occurs at about 1 microns where the scattered stellar radiation as well as the obscurity of the star by circumstellar dust are already quite small, whereas thermal dust emission is not large yet. This wavelength region may be used for investigations of the stellar continuum unpolluted by circumstellar dust. In the envelope of WW Vul, the wavelength dependence of circumstellar extinction (taking into account scattered radiation) is almost neutral. The degree of linear polarization does not exceed 1% for the shell models of both stars, but it increases tremendously when circumstellar dust clouds screen the star. When a full stellar eclipse occurs, the maximum polarization is 8-10% in the red part of the spectrum. The polarization shows the local minimum at wavelengths 1300-2000 A for WW Vul and the double polarization reversal at wavelengths 1600-1700 A and 1900-2000 A for UX Ori.
Grinin V. P.
Karjukin V. V.
Voshchinnikov Nikolai V.
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