Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992sao..reptq....h&link_type=abstract
Semiannual Progress Report No. 16, 1 Oct. 1983 - 31 Dec. 1991 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accretion Disks, Light Scattering, Line Spectra, Monte Carlo Method, Pre-Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Spectra, Asymmetry, Daytime, Dust, Imaging Techniques, Orion Constellation, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Rotation
Scientific paper
With the Monte Carlo code developed by Whitney and Hartmann, a series of models was computed of scattering in disks around young stellar objects. The code calculates scattering by dust, including polarization, in arbitrary geometries. By computing model images, it was found that disk, by themselves, around young stellar objects would be very difficult to detect with present day imaging techniques. In comparing these images to observations of young stellar objects which show diffuse structure, little resemblance was found. A flared disk system will only give high polarization when viewed edge-on, and the position angle is always oriented perpendicular to the disk plane. This suggests that an envelope, perhaps the remnant infalling envelope, must be present to scatter more stellar light than a disk can, and obscure the star at many inclinations. A grid was computed of models of scattering in a disk+envelope system. Evidence is presented that the wind of the pre-main sequence object FU Orionis arises from the surface of the luminous prostellar accretion disk. A disk wind model calculated assuming radiative equilibrium explains the differential behavior of the observed asymmetrical absorption line profiles. The model predicts that strong lines should be asymmetric and blueshifted, while weak lines should be symmetric and doubled peaked due to disk rotation, in agreement with observations.
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