The circumbinary dusty disk of upsilon Sgr revealed by mid-IR interferometric observations with the VLTI/MIDI

Details The circumbinary dusty disk of upsilon Sgr revealed by mid-IR interferometric observations with the VLTI/MIDI The circumbinary dusty disk of upsilon Sgr revealed by mid-IR interferometric observations with the VLTI/MIDI

Nov 2008

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"SF2A-2008: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Eds.: C. Charbonnel, F. Combes

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The first mid-IR interferometric observations of a hydrogen-deficient binary star, υ Sgr, were carried out using the MIDI/VLTI instrument between April 2007 and May 2008. The dusty circumbinary envelope is resolved in the N band (8-13.5 μ m), and has a typical size of 20 x 14 mas. The calibrated fringe visibilities, the mid-IR spectrum and the SED were fitted using models computed with the radiative transfer code MC3D using several mixtures of carbon and silicate dust, in order to determine the geometry and chemical composition of the envelope. The best model we obtain is a geometrically thin and dense disk with an inner radius of R_{in} ≃ 6.0AU and a scale height h_{100} ≃ 3.5 AU. The inclination of the disk is i ≃ 50° and its position angle is PA ≃ 80°. The chemical composition of the dust is approximatelya ratio of 60% of carbon dust and 40% of silicate dust. We constrained for the first time the geometry and the chemistry of the circumbinary dusty envelope of υ Sgr. It is now clear that the components of υ Sgr are massive stars (> 10 M_&sun;) and the results are compatible with evolutionary scenario proposed by Delgado & Thomas (1981) of a binary with massive components experiencing several phases of important mass transfer leading to the hydrogen-deficient primary star. However, complementary spectro-interferometric observations in the near infrared and the visible are mandatory to investigate the complex structure of the inner circumstellar environment and directly resolve the stellar components of the υ Sgr system.

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