Diagnosing 0.1-10 au Scale Morphology of the FU Ori Disk Using ALMA and VLTI/GRAVITY

Liu H.B.; Mérand A.; Green, J. D.; Pérez S.; Hales A.S.; Yang Y.-L.; Dunham, M. M.; Hasegawa Y.; Henning T.; Galván-Madrid R.; Kóspál Á.; Takami M.; Vorobyov E.I.; Zhu Z.

Abstract

We report new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 3 (86-100 GHz; similar to 80 mas angular resolution) and Band 4 (146-160 GHz; similar to 50 mas angular resolution) observations of the dust continuum emission toward the archetypal and ongoing accretion burst young stellar object FU Ori, which simultaneously covered its companion, FU Ori S. In addition, we present near-infrared (2-2.45 mu m) observations of FU Ori taken with the General Relativity Analysis via VLT InTerferometrY (GRAVITY; similar to 1 mas angular resolution) instrument on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). We find that the emission in both FU Ori and FU Ori S at (sub)millimeter and near-infrared bands is dominated by structures inward of similar to 10 au radii. We detected closure phases close to zero from FU Ori with VLTI/GRAVITY, which indicate the source is approximately centrally symmetric and therefore is likely viewed nearly face-on. Our simple model to fit the GRAVITY data shows that the inner 0.4 au radii of the FU Ori disk has a triangular spectral shape at 2-2.45 mu m, which is consistent with the H2O and CO absorption features in a (M) over dot similar to 10(-4) M-circle dot yr(-1), viscously heated accretion disk. At larger (similar to 0.4-10 au) radii, our analysis shows that viscous heating may also explain the observed (sub)millimeter and centimeter spectral energy distribution when we assume a constant, similar to 10(-4) M-circle dot yr(-1) mass inflow rate in this region. This explains how the inner 0.4 au disk is replenished with mass at a modest rate, such that it neither depletes nor accumulates significant masses over its short dynamic timescale. Finally, we tentatively detect evidence of vertical dust settling in the inner 10 au of the FU Ori disk, but confirmation requires more complete spectral sampling in the centimeter bands.

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Título según WOS: Diagnosing 0.1-10 au Scale Morphology of the FU Ori Disk Using ALMA and VLTI/GRAVITY
Título según SCOPUS: Diagnosing 0.1-10 au Scale Morphology of the FU Ori Disk Using ALMA and VLTI/GRAVITY
Título de la Revista: ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volumen: 884
Número: 1
Editorial: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.3847/1538-4357/ab391c

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS