Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-02-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, aas2pp4 style
Scientific paper
Assuming a diamagnetic interaction between a stellar-spot originated localized magnetic field and gas blobs in the accretion disk around a T- Tauri star, we show the possibility of ejection of such blobs out of the disk plane. Choosing the interaction radius and the magnetic field parameters in a suitable way gives rise to closed orbits for the ejected blobs. A stream of matter composed of such blobs, ejected on one side of the disk and impacting on the other, can form a hot spot at a fixed position on the disk (in the frame rotating with the star). Such a hot spot, spread somewhat by disk shear before cooling, may be responsible in some cases for the lightcurve variations observed in various T-Tauri stars over the years. An eclipse-based mechanism due to stellar obscuration of the spot is proposed. Assuming high disk inclination angles it is able to explain many of the puzzling properties of these variations. By varying the field parameters and blob initial conditions we obtain variations in the apparent angular velocity of the hot spot, producing a constantly changing period or intermittent periodicity disappearance in the models.
Bertout Claude
Regev Oded
Ultchin Y.
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