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Herbig Ae/Be Stars Rens Waters SRON University of Amsterdam HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be starsstars RensRens WatersWaters George Herbig 1920-2013 SRONSRON UniversityUniversity ofof AmsterdamAmsterdam Herbig Ae/Be stars OverviewOverview • A bit of history • Herbig Ae/Be stars and their disks • Disk geometry • Dust diagnostics • Gas diagnostics • Links to planetary systems • Conclusions Herbig Ae/Be stars HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be starsstars • First introduced as a group by George Herbig in 1960 • A or B type stars with IR excess, Hα emission, reflection nebulosity • In star forming regions • Surrounded by what we now know are proto-planetary/accretion disks, envelopes • Later: criterion “association with reflection nebulosity” was relaxed • See also e.g. Bastian et al. (1983), Lamers et al. (1998) Confusion with post main sequence stars remains an issue Herbig Ae/Be stars Herbig Ae/Be stars Herbig Ae/Be stars SamplesSamples ofof HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be starsstars • Original list of Herbig (1960) (26 objects, candidates) • Herbig & Rao (1972) (T Tau and Herbig Ae/Be stars) • Finkenzeller & Mundt (1984) (57 stars including candidate HAEBE stars) • The et al catalogue (1994) (287 objects, including candidate HAEBE stars) • Cross-referencing IRAS point source catalogue and optical star catalogues: e.g. Weintraub (1990), Oudmaijer et al. (1992), Malfait et al. (1998) Searches for intermediate mass young stars in massive star forming regions (e.g. Hanson, Blum, Bik, Kaper) Herbig Ae/Be stars Central star characterization Strom et al. 1972 See also Cohen & Kuhi 1979 Acke & Waelkens 2004 Strom et al. 1972 Chemical composition Rotation speed Magnetic fields binarity Herbig Ae/Be stars FinkenzellerFinkenzeller && MundtMundt 19841984 Outflows IR excess due to dust Herbig Ae/Be stars SpectralSpectral energyenergy distributionsdistributions Hillenbrand et al. 1992 Herbig Ae/Be stars MassMass accretionaccretion ratesrates Skinner et al. (1993) from radio continuum Muzerolle et al (2004) Typical accretion rates 10-8 -7 to 10 Mo/yr Herbig Ae/Be stars OutflowsOutflows andand accretion,accretion, HerbigHerbig HaroHaro objects,objects, jetsjets rAB Aur Praderie et al. 1986 Grady et al.2000 HD100546 Herbig stars show phenomena that are similar to T Tau stars Grady et al. (1996) Herbig Ae/Be stars First international meeting on herbig Ae/Be stars Amsterdam, 1993 Herbig Ae/Be stars TremendousTremendous progressprogress inin thethe pastpast 2020 years!years! HST KECK ISO VLT(I) Spitzer Subaru Herschel ALMA Herbig Ae/Be stars SpectralSpectral evolutionevolution duringduring starstar andand planetplanet formation:formation: picturepicture forfor allall intermediateintermediate massmass PMSPMS stars?stars? Van Boekel and refs therein (2004) Eur osci enc e20 06 EvolutionaryEvolutionary tracks:tracks: pre-main-sequencepre-main-sequence phasephase Palla & Stahler 1990, 1993 Birth line for Herbig Ae/Be stars 8 M0 Upper mass limit for PMS phase Faster evolution of intermediate mass PMS stars Herbig Ae/Be stars IsolatedIsolated HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be stars:stars: relativelyrelatively oldold disksdisks ~1-4 Myr intermediate mass stars in clusters isolated Van den Ancker et al. 1997 Fedele et al. Bik, Maaskant Herbig Ae/Be stars ProgenitorsProgenitors ofof HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be starsstars • Herbig Ae stars: Intermediate mass T Tau stars • Herbig Be stars: Massive, embedded YSOs Calvet et al. (2004) -8 Mass accretion rates ~3 10 Mo/yr Herbig Ae/Be stars IsolationIsolation versusversus clustercluster environmentenvironment Triggered star formation Disk evaporation timescale Impact on planet formation Odell & Wong 1996 Herbig Ae/Be stars Disks,Disks, disksdisks disks!disks! • How does planet formation proceed? • How does it depend on stellar mass, environment? • Which disks produce which planetary system architectures? • What is the stellar upper mass limit for planet Henning & Semenov formation to proceed? Herbig stars are truly intermediate between massive YSOs and low mass T Tau stars Herbig Ae/Be stars DiskDisk models:models: ChiangChiang andand GoldreichGoldreich Chiang & Goldreich (1997) Hydrostatic equilibrium disk models Herbig Ae/Be stars • “Puffed-up” inner rim, casting shadow • Flaring versus self- shadowed disks: Natta et al; grain growth Dullemond, • Planet formation: formation of inner Dominik, holes and disk Natta gaps Herbig Ae/Be stars StateState ofof thethe artart diskdisk modelsmodels Prodimo (Woitke, Kamp, Thi) Gas and dust treated separately Chemical network Herbig Ae/Be stars DiskDisk geometry:geometry: signpostsignpost ofof planetplanet formationformation Flaring versus Spiral density Disk Dust flat waves gaps/holes traps HD104237 Group 2 AB Aurigae Group 1 HD100546 HD142527 IRS 48 Meeus et al. Grady et al. Honda et al; Van der 2001 Verhoeff et al. Marel et al. Herbig Ae/Be stars FromFrom flaringflaring toto self-shadowedself-shadowed disksdisks Dust settles and grows, Dullemond & Dominik removal of small grains from disk surface; gas disk Do disks remains flaring evolve from flaring to self- shadowed Nakagawa et al. 1986 disks? Herbig Ae/Be stars Gas-richGas-rich diskdisk withwith dustdust settledsettled toto mid-planemid-plane Verhoeff et al (2009) Herbig Ae/Be stars FlaringFlaring outerouter diskdisk inin HD97048HD97048 mid-IR imaging, Lagage et al. 2006 (Science) Direct measure of outer disk flaring angle Agrees with hydrostatic equilibrium models Herbig Ae/Be stars However…However… ““FlaringFlaring disksdisks”” areare transitionaltransitional disks!disks! Khalafinejad, Maaskant et al. (in preparation) Herbig Ae/Be stars InnerInner diskdisk structurestructure Near-IR interferometry: optically thin inner cavities, dust sublimation at ~1500 K Monnier et al. Herbig Ae/Be stars InnerInner diskdisk structurestructure • Natta et al (2001), Dullemond et al. (2001): disk wall directiy irradiated • Isella & Natta (2005): rounded off inner wall; Kama et al: optically thin inner region Kama et al. • Problem: hydrostatic equilibrium disks do not produce enough near-IR flux • Solutions: • optically thin halo (Vinkovic et al. 2006) • Extended disk atmosphere (Thi et al) • Magnetically supported region in disk atmosphere (turner et al. Turner et al. 2013) Herbig Ae/Be stars DustDust asas aa tracertracer ofof planetplanet formationformation amorphous • Grain size: • Dust settling & growth: flaring to self- shadowed… • spatial distribution as a function of grain size (dust traps) • Grain composition: crystalline • Thermal processing: thermal annealing of amorphous silicates, carbon combustion • Gas phase condensation of crystalline silicates in inner regions • Formation of new solids, e.g. FeS • Origin of crystalline silicates: • Thermal annealing near the star • Radial mixing to outer disk regions • Local processing: shocks caused by planet formation / gap formation Herbig Ae/Be stars ISOISO openedopened aa newnew viewview onon HAeBeHAeBe disksdisks e.g. Bouwman et al. 2003 Meeus et al. 2001 Acke & van den Ancker 2004 Herbig Ae/Be stars VLTI/MIDIVLTI/MIDI :: crystalscrystals formform nearnear thethe youngyoung starstar • Annealing,Annealing, formationformation ofof forsteriteforsterite andand enstatiteenstatite • ChemicalChemical equilibriumequilibrium reactionsreactions E F E F Van Boekel et al. 2004 Herbig Ae/Be stars SpitzerSpitzer spectra:spectra: dustdust mineralogymineralogy More enstatite in the inner disk More forsterite in the outer disk Traces formation history Juhasz et al. Herbig Ae/Be stars HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be starstar HD100546HD100546 [OI] Bouwman Water Ice [CII] forsterite (see also McClure et al. (2012) GQ Lupi disk spectrum) DustDust trapstraps inin herbigherbig Ae/BeAe/Be disksdisks Ohashi et al. (2007) Van der Marel et al. (2013) Vortex-shaped dust trap caused by companion Herbig Ae/Be stars DustDust trapstraps inin HerbigHerbig Ae/BeAe/Be disks:disks: HD142527HD142527 Mid-infrared imaging Sub-mm imaging (ALMA) Warm grains Cold gas/dust Verhoeff et al. (2010) Fukagawa et al. (2013) Gravitationally unstable outer disk? Herbig Ae/Be stars GasGas diagnoticsdiagnotics • Outflows • Jets • Accretion • Disk structure • Disk kinematics • Chemistry Many papers, ISO A. Carmona (2009) spectroscopy, Spitzer, Herschel, Keck, VLT, ALMA,… Herbig Ae/Be stars CO ro-vibrational line GasGas inin upperupper diskdisk layerslayers [OI] 6300 A Brittain et al.: CO ro- vibrational emission Van der Plas et al T (gas) > 1000K Herbig Ae/Be stars HerschelHerschel observationsobservations ofof coolcool gasgas inin disks;disks; example:example: GasGas LinesLines inin HD100546HD100546 CO, OH, H2O lines detected. CO rotation diagrams: T = 300, 800 K N(CO) 1016 – 1017 cm–2 B. Sturm et al. (2010) See also Meeus et al. (2012) CO modeling: gas temperature in disk atmosphere larger than dust temperatures (Bruderer 2012) ColdCold gasgas tracedtraced inin COCO andand HCO+HCO+ Casassus et al. 2013 Herbig Ae/Be stars Near-IR Far-IR T Tauri [OI], CO, OH, H O CO, OH, 2 < 1.5 M☼ H2O,HCN,C2 H2 [OI], CO, OH HAeBe I (flared) CH+, H O CO 2 OH > 1.5 M☼ HAeBe II (flat) [OI], OH, H2O CO OH D. Fedele EvidenceEvidence forfor planetsplanets orbitingorbiting intermediateintermediate massmass starsstars Image: NASA Herbig Ae/Be stars Exo-planetsExo-planets orbitingorbiting intermediateintermediate massmass starsstars Exoplanet database Herbig Ae/Be stars ZeerZeer jongejonge planeetplaneet inin stofschijfstofschijf Young planet in Beta Pic disk! Lagrange et al. (2008) Herbig Ae/Be stars massivemassive planetsplanets surroundingsurrounding youngyoung intermediateintermediate massmass starsstars HR 8799 Beta Pic Marois et al 2008 Science Lagrange
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