Discovery of an Optically Thick, Edge-on Disk around the Herbig Ae star PDS 144N

Details Discovery of an Optically Thick, Edge-on Disk around the Herbig Ae star PDS 144N Discovery of an Optically Thick, Edge-on Disk around the Herbig Ae star PDS 144N

2006-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603667v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 31 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/504510

We have discovered an optically thick, edge-on circumstellar disk around a Herbig Ae star in the binary system PDS 144, providing the first intermediate-mass analog of HK Tau and similar T Tauris. This system consists of a V ~ 13 mag. primary and a fainter companion, with spectra of both stars showing evidence for circumstellar disks and accretion; both stars were classified as Herbig Aes by the Pico dos Dias survey. In Lick adaptive optics polarimetry, we resolved extended polarized light scattered from dust around the northern star. Followup Keck adaptive optics and mid-infrared observations show that this star is entirely hidden by an optically thick disk at all wavelengths from 1.2 to 11.7 microns. The disk major axis subtends ~ 0.8" on the sky, corresponding to ~ 800 AU at a distance of 1000 pc. Bright "wings" extend 0.3" above and below the disk ansae, due most likely to scattering from the edges of an outflow cavity in a circumstellar envelope. We discuss the morphology of the disk and the spectral energy distributions of the two PDS 144 stars, present preliminary disk models, and identify a number of open questions regarding this fascinating system.

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