Scattered Light Models of Protostellar Envelopes: Multiple Outflow Cavities and Misaligned Circumstellar Disks

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Dec 1999

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American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #02.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.1368

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Ground based imaging polarimetry and recent WFPC2 and NICMOS images of protostars have revealed very complex scattered light patterns. We are conducting detailed 3-D radiation transfer modeling of these sources to investigate the effects on image morphology of multiple illuminating sources and 3-D infalling envelopes that have been shaped by multiple outflows. We present model images for IRAS 04016+2610, IRAS 04248+2612, and T Tau. We find that the scattered light pattern of IRAS 04016+2610 can be reproduced by scattering in an envelope with cavities carved by two sets of bipolar outflows, suggestive of an embedded binary system. IRAS 04248+2612 can be modeled with an envelope with a single bipolar cavity with the lower cavity offset from the upper. This break of axisymmetry is not surprising given the large precessing jets that are associated with this source. For T Tau we have constructed scattered light models where the illumination of the surrounding envelope is by a binary with each source having a small circumstellar disk. We find that the asymmetries in the WFPC2 image of T Tau can be reproduced if the disks in the binary system are misaligned. Our models demonstrate the necessity of a 3D scattering code in analysis of the complex geometries inherent in protostellar collapse. This research is funded by the HST Archival Research Program, and the NSF REU program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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