The GRAVITY young stellar object survey VII. The inner dusty disks of T Tauri stars
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Perraut, K.
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Labadie, L.
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Bouvier, J.
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Menard, F.
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Klarmann, L.
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Dougados, C.
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Benisty, Myriam
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Berger, J-P
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Bouarour, Y- I
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Brandner, W.
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Garatti, A. Caratti o
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Caselli, P.
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Zeeuw, P. T. de
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García López, R.
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Henning, T.
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Sánchez Bermúdez, J.
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Sousa, A.
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Van Dishoeck, E.
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Alecian, E.
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Amorim, A.
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Clenet, Y.
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Davies, R.
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Drescher, A.
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Duvert, G.
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Eckart, A.
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Eisenhauer, F.
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Foerster Schreiber, N. M.
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García, P.
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Gendron, E.
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Genzel, R.
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Gillessen, S.
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Grellmann, R.
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Heissel, G.
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Hippler, S.
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Horrobin, M.
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Hubert, Z.
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Jocou, L.
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Kervella, P.
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Lacour, S.
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Lapeyrere, V.
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Le Bouquin, J-B
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Lena, P.
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Lutz, D.
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Ott, T.
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Paumard, T.
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Perrin, G.
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Scheithauer, S.
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Shangguan, J.
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Shimizu, T.
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Stadler, J.
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Straub, O.
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Straubmeier, C.
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Sturm, E.
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Tacconi, L.
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Vincent, F.
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Von Fellenberg, S.
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Widmann, F.
Admission date
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2022-05-17T14:15:01Z
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2022-05-17T14:15:01Z
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2021
Cita de ítem
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A&A 655, A73 (2021)
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10.1051/0004-6361/202141624
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/185559
Abstract
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Context. T Tauri stars are surrounded by dust and gas disks. As material reservoirs from which matter is accreted onto the central star
and planets are built, these protoplanetary disks play a central role in star and planet formation.
Aims. We aim at spatially resolving at sub-astronomical unit (sub-au) scales the innermost regions of the protoplanetary disks around
a sample of T Tauri stars to better understand their morphology and composition.
Methods. Thanks to the sensitivity and the better spatial frequency coverage of the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, we extended our homogeneous data set of 27 Herbig stars and collected near-infrared K-band interferometric
observations of 17 T Tauri stars, spanning effective temperatures and luminosities in the ranges of ∼4000–6000 K and ∼0.4–10 L ,
respectively. We focus on the continuum emission and develop semi-physical geometrical models to fit the interferometric data and
search for trends between the properties of the disk and the central star.
Results. As for those of their more massive counterparts, the Herbig Ae/Be stars, the best-fit models of the inner rim of the T Tauri
disks correspond to wide rings. The GRAVITY measurements extend the radius-luminosity relation toward the smallest luminosities
(0.4–10 L ). As observed previously, in this range of luminosities, the R ∝ L
1/2
trend line is no longer valid, and the K-band sizes
measured with GRAVITY appear to be larger than the predicted sizes derived from sublimation radius computation. We do not see
a clear correlation between the K-band half-flux radius and the mass accretion rate onto the central star. Besides, having magnetic
truncation radii in agreement with the K-band GRAVITY sizes would require magnetic fields as strong as a few kG, which should have
been detected, suggesting that accretion is not the main process governing the location of the half-flux radius of the inner dusty disk.
The GRAVITY measurements agree with models that take into account the scattered light, which could be as important as thermal
emission in the K band for these cool stars. The N-to-K band size ratio may be a proxy for disentangling disks with silicate features
in emission from disks with weak and/or in absorption silicate features (i.e., disks with depleted inner regions and/or with large gaps).
The GRAVITY data also provide inclinations and position angles of the inner disks. When compared to those of the outer disks derived
from ALMA images of nine objects of our sample, we detect clear misalignments between both disks for four objects.
Conclusions. The combination of improved data quality with a significant and homogeneous sample of young stellar objects allows
us to revisit the pioneering works done on the protoplanetary disks by K-band interferometry and to test inner disk physics such as the
inner rim morphology and location.
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Patrocinador
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
"Programme National de Physique Stellaire" (PNPS) of CNRS/INSU - CEA
Centre National D'etudes Spatiales
Action Specifique ASHRA of CNRS/INSU - CNES
European Research Council (ERC) 742095
740651
743029
European Research Council (ERC)
European Commission 832428
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
European Commission UIDB/00099/2020
SFRH/BSAB/142940/2018
PTDC/FIS-AST/7002/2020
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Lenguage
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en
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Publisher
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EDP Sciences
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States