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The Structure of Disks Around Intermediate-Mass Young Stars from Mid-Infrared Interferometry UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) The structure of disks around intermediate-mass young stars from mid-infrared interferometry. Evidence for a population of group II disks with gaps Menu, J.; van Boekel, R.; Henning, T.; Leinert, C.; Waelkens, C.; Waters, L.B.F.M. DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/201525654 Publication date 2015 Document Version Final published version Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Menu, J., van Boekel, R., Henning, T., Leinert, C., Waelkens, C., & Waters, L. B. F. M. (2015). The structure of disks around intermediate-mass young stars from mid-infrared interferometry. Evidence for a population of group II disks with gaps. 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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:03 Oct 2021 A&A 581, A107 (2015) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525654 & c ESO 2015 Astrophysics The structure of disks around intermediate-mass young stars from mid-infrared interferometry Evidence for a population of group II disks with gaps J. Menu1,2,, R. van Boekel2, Th. Henning2,Ch.Leinert2, C. Waelkens1, and L. B. F. M. Waters3,4 1 Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium e-mail: [email protected] 2 Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany 3 SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands 4 Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94249, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received 13 January 2015 / Accepted 5 June 2015 ABSTRACT Context. The disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars are commonly divided into group I and group II based on their far-infrared spectral energy distribution, and the common interpretation for that is flared and flat disks. Our understanding of the evolution of these disks is rapidly changing. Recent observations suggest that many flaring disks have gaps, whereas flat disks are thought to be gapless. Aims. The different groups of objects can be expected to have different structural signatures in high-angular-resolution data, related to gaps, dust settling, and flaring. We aim to use such data to gain new insight into disk structure and evolution. Methods. Over the past 10 years, the MIDI instrument on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has collected observations of several tens of protoplanetary disks. We modeled the large set of observations with simple geometric models and compared the characteristic sizes among the different objects. A population of radiative-transfer models was synthesized for interpreting the mid- infrared signatures. Results. Objects with similar luminosities show very different disk sizes in the mid-infrared. This may point to an intrinsic diversity or could also hint at different evolutionary stages of the disks. Restricting this to the young objects of intermediate mass, we confirm that most group I disks are in agreement with being transitional (i.e., they have gaps). We find that several group II objects have mid-infrared sizes and colors that overlap with sources classified as group I, transition disks. This suggests that these sources have gaps, which has been demonstrated for a subset of them. This may point to an intermediate population between gapless and transition disks. Conclusions. Flat disks with gaps are most likely descendants of flat disks without gaps. Potentially related to the formation of massive bodies, gaps may therefore even develop in disks in a far stage of grain growth and settling. The evolutionary implications of this new population could be twofold. Either gapped flat disks form a separate population of evolved disks or some of them may evolve further into flaring disks with large gaps. The latter transformation may be governed by the interaction with a massive planet, carving a large gap and dynamically exciting the grain population in the disk. Key words. protoplanetary disks – techniques: interferometric – planet-disk interactions – stars: pre-main sequence 1. Introduction point of view of planet formation, on the other hand, they rep- resent the progenitors of debris-disk objects around A-type stars Detailed study of the structure and evolution of protoplanetary with or without detected planetary systems, such as Vega, β Pic, disks is a necessary prerequisite for understanding planet forma- Fomalhaut, and HR 4796A (Holland et al. 1998)1. tion. The dust- and gas-rich protoplanetary disks set the bound- Our understanding of the evolution of Herbig Ae/Be star ary conditions for the formation, initial dynamics, composition, disks (or, Herbig Ae/Be disks), itself, is in evolution. The and even the actual presence of planetary systems. Planetary sys- idea that the disks are gradually dispersed and the central ob- tems are observed to be extremely diverse, so that understand- jects evolve into “naked” main-sequence stars is well estab- ing this diversity translates into constraining the onset of planet lished (e.g., Lada 1987). Additionally, the potential mechanisms formation within the disks. that drive the dispersion process have probably been identified Objects that have been under special scrutiny are the (see, e.g., the overview in Alexander et al. 2014). However, / intermediate-mass young objects known as Herbig Ae Be stars the coupling of these dissipation mechanisms to observational (Herbig 1960; Waters & Waelkens 1998). From the point of view of star formation, they present the link between the lower-mass 1 T Tauri objects and the massive young stellar objects. From the It is interesting to note that several of the few directly imaged plan- etary companions are found around A-type stars, which are descen- dants of Herbig Ae/Be stars. Examples of A-type exoplanet host stars Appendices A and B are available in electronic form at are HR 8799 (e.g., Marois et al. 2008), HD 95086 (e.g., Rameau et al. http://www.aanda.org 2013), κ And (e.g., Carson et al. 2013), β Pic (e.g., Lagrange et al. 2010), Ph.D. fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). and HD 100546 (e.g., Quanz et al. 2013). Article published by EDP Sciences A107, page 1 of 25 A&A 581, A107 (2015) Herbigg Ae /Be disks single disk flaring disk primordial flaring disk (normal SED) (group I) double disk flat disk transition disk flat disk (double-peaked (group II) (group I) (group II) SED) Waelkens et al. (1994) Meeus et al. (2001) Maaskant et al. (2013) Fig. 1. Different evolution scenarios proposed for Herbig Ae/Be disks. The Herbig Ae/Be phase is indicated in the red boxes. signatures for the global structure of the disks is highly non- sources, whereas in group II sources, grain growth and settling trivial. We give an overview of the proposed evolutionary scenar- would have flattened the outer disk. ios for Herbig Ae/Be disks in Fig. 1, and describe them below. The notion that all group I sources may have gaps confirms the importance of spatially resolved observations. Typical radii Waelkens et al. (1994) have distinguished a class of Herbig Ae/Be stars with a broad dip in the 10-μmregionof of directly detected gaps are 20 au (Maaskant et al. 2013), their infrared excess. This double-peaked spectral energy distri- which is close to the resolution limit of the observations (for bution (SED) was interpreted as representing a transition phase a typical distance of 150 pc). Moreover, for the group II sources, between classical broad infrared excesses of young stars and the amount of structural information from direct observations faint cool excesses of debris-disk objects. The conjectured ex- is very limited, since the disks tend to appear faint and small. planation for this dip by these authors was the development of a An interesting alternative to direct imaging is mid-infrared physical gap in the radial dust distribution, which is also the in- interferometry: terpretation of van den Ancker et al. (1997). The origin of this 1. the angular resolution for typical observations is a factor gap would be the formation of larger bodies within the disk. of 10 higher than for direct imaging; The full evolutionary scenario that then emerged was shown in 2. the mid-infrared wavelength range corresponds to the ther- Malfait et al. (1998). mal emission of small dust grains in the inner 1–10 au (scal- A new classification of the Herbig Ae/Be objects has been ing with the stellar luminosity, see Henning & Meeus 2011), proposed by Meeus et al. (2001). Based on the shape of its mid- which is a good tracer for the disk structure; to far-infrared continuum, a source was classified as “group II” 3. spectrally resolved observations in the 8–13 micron atmo- when the continuum was like a power law and “group I” when spheric window provide additional information on the com- an additional cold component was present on the power-law con- position of the disk’s small grain population.
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