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Anisotropic Ionizing Illumination from an M-type Pre-main-sequence Star, DM Tau

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العنوان: Anisotropic Ionizing Illumination from an M-type Pre-main-sequence Star, DM Tau
المؤلفون: Yuka Terada, Hauyu Baobab Liu, David Mkrtichian, Jinshi Sai, Mihoko Konishi, Ing-Guey Jiang, Takayuki Muto, Jun Hashimoto, Motohide Tamura
المصدر: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 953, Iss 2, p 147 (2023)
بيانات النشر: IOP Publishing, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Starspots, Protoplanetary disks, Star-planet interactions, Stellar accretion disks, T Tauri stars, Observational astronomy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
الوصف: The powerful, high-energy magnetic activities of young stars play important roles in the magnetohydrodynamics in the innermost parts of the protoplanetary disks. In addition, the associated UV and X-ray emission dictates the photochemistry; moreover, the corona activities can affect the atmosphere of a newborn extrasolar planet. How the UV and X-ray photons are generated and how they illuminate the disks are not well understood. Here we report the analyses of the optical and infrared (OIR) photometric monitoring observations and the high angular resolution centimeter-band images of the low-mass (M1-type) pre-main-sequence star DM Tau. We found that the OIR photometric light curves present periodic variations, which suggests that the host young star is rotating in the same direction as the natal disk and is hosting at least one giant cold spot. In addition, we resolved that the ionized gas in the DM Tau disk is localized and its spatial distribution is varying with time. All the present observations can be coherently interpreted, if the giant cold spot is the dominant anisotropic UV and/or X-ray source that illuminates the ambient cone-like region. These results indicate that a detailed theoretical model of the high-energy protostellar emission is essential in understanding the space weather around extrasolar planets and the origin of life.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1538-4357
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acdedf
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/072de567ac114cc2b5b5851af74c85f7
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.072de567ac114cc2b5b5851af74c85f7
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
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تدمد:15384357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/acdedf