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The Transitional PMS Object DI Tauri: Evidence for a Sub-stellar Companion and Rapid Disk Evolution | | Michael R. Meyer
; S.V.W. Beckwith
; T.M. Herbst
; M. Robberto
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28 Aug 1997 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We report mid--IR observations of two young stars found in the Taurus dark cloud spatially resolving for the first time their 10 $mu$m emission. The weak-emission T Tauri star DI Tau, tentatively identified by Skrutskie et al. (1990) on the basis of 12 $mu$m IRAS data as an object in the process of dissipating its circumstellar disk, is found to have no infrared excess at a wavelength of 10 $mu$m. The nearby classical T Tauri star DH Tau exhibits excess emission at 10 $mu$m consistent with predictions based on circumstellar disk models. While both objects appear to have the same stellar mass, age, and rotation rate, they differ in two fundamental respects: DH Tau is a single star with an active accretion disk and DI Tau is a binary system lacking such a disk. The companion to DI Tau has a very low luminosity and is located at a projected distance of $sim 20$ A.U. from the primary. Assuming the system to be co-eval, we derive a mass below the hydrogen burning limit for the companion. We speculate that the formation of a sub-stellar mass companion has led to the rapid evolution of the circumstellar disk that may have surrounded DI Tau. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9708257 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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