Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2003
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Astronomy Letters, vol. 29, p. 612-620 (2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
In the UV spectra of BP Tau, GW Ori, T Tau, and RY Tau obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, we detected an inflection near 2000 Angstrems in the F^clambda(lambda) curve that describes the continuum energy distribution. The inflection probably stems from the fact that the UV continuum in these stars consists of two components: the emission from an optically thick gas with T < 8000 K and the emission from a gas with a much higher temperature. The total luminosity of the hot component is much lower than that of the cool component, but the hot-gas radiation dominates at lambda < 1800 Angstrems. Previously, other authors have drawn a similar conclusion for several young stars from low-resolution IUE spectra. However, we show that the short-wavelength continuum is determined from these spectra with large errors. We also show that, for three of the stars studied (BP Tau, GW Ori, and T Tau), the accretion-shock radiation cannot account for the observed dependence F^clambda(lambda) in the ultraviolet. We argue that more than 90% of the emission continuum in BP Tau at lambda > 2000 Angstrems originates not in the accretion shock but in the inner accretion disk. Previously, a similar conclusion was reached for six more classical T Tau stars. Therefore, we believe that the high-temperature continuum can be associated with the radiation from the disk chromosphere. However, it may well be that the stellar chromosphere is its source.
Kravtsova S. A.
Lamzin Sergei A.
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