Resolved Inner Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars

Details Resolved Inner Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars Resolved Inner Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars

2004-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406356v1

Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 1049-1071

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

54 pages, including 16 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (October 2004 issue)

Scientific paper

10.1086/423314

We have observed 14 Herbig Ae/Be sources with the long-baseline near-IR Palomar Testbed Interferometer, All except two sources are resolved at 2.2 um, with angular sizes generally <5 mas. We determine the size scales and orientations of the 2.2 um emission using various models: uniform disks, Gaussians, uniform rings, flat accretion disks with inner holes, and flared disks with puffed-up inner rims; 7 objects display significantly inclined morphologies, generally compatible with the outer disk geometries inferred from millimeter interferometric observations, implying that HAEBE disks are not significantly warped. Using the derived inner disk sizes and inclinations, we compute the spectral energy distributions for two simple physical disk models, and compare these with observed SEDs compiled from the literature and new near-IR photometry. While geometrically flat accretion disk models are consistent with the data for the earliest spectral types in our sample (MWC 297, V1685 Cyg, and MWC 1080), the later-type sources are explained better through models incorporating puffed-up inner disk walls; this may indicate different accretion mechanisms for early and late-type Herbig Ae/Be stars.

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