Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the CoolStars16 conference proceedings (Seattle, 2010)
Scientific paper
Dusty primordial disks surrounding young low-mass stars are revealing tracers of stellar and planetary formation. The evolution and lifetime of these disks define the boundary conditions of the mechanisms of planet formation. Stellar companions, however, can significantly change this evolution through their tidal interactions. Stellar evolution and planet formation in binaries have to respond to an environment of truncated, quickly disappearing disks--very different compared to an isolated star environment. In order to investigate details of the influence of binarity on circumstellar disk evolution, we obtained adaptive optics supported near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of the individual components of 22 low-mass binaries in the well-known Orion Nebula Cluster. Brackett gamma emission, which we detect in several systems, is used as a tracer for the presence of an active accretion disk around each binary component. We find a low fraction of accreting binary components, when compared to the disk fraction of single stars in the ONC. This might indicate a significantly faster evolution of disks in binaries. This finding is paticularly interesting, since the target sample consists of wide >100AU binaries--separations for which the disks are typically expected to evolve similarly to single star disks.
Correia Sebastiao
Daemgen Sebastian
Petr-Gotzens Monika G.
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