2024ApJ...963..159P -
Astrophys. J., 963, 159 (2024/March-2)
Ejection Patterns in the DG Tau Jet over the Last 40 yr: Insights into Mass Accretion Variability.
PYO T.-S., HAYASHI M., TAKAMI M. and BECK T.L.
Abstract (from CDS):
We aim to clarify the link between mass accretion and ejection by analyzing DG Tau's jet observations from optical and near-infrared data spanning 1984-2019, alongside photometric variations between 1983 and 2015. We classified 12 moving knot groups among 17 total knot groups based on their constant proper motions and comparable radial velocities. A strong correlation emerges between the deprojected flow velocities of the knots and the photometric magnitudes of DG Tau. From 1983 to 1995, as the deprojected ejection velocities surged from ∼273 ± 15 to ∼427 ± 16 km s–1, the photometric magnitudes (V) concurrently brightened from 12.3 to 11.4. Notably, when DG Tau became brighter than 12.2 in the V band, its (B - V) color shifted bluer than its intrinsic color range of K5-M0. During this period, the launching point of the jet in the protoplanetary disk moved closer to 0.06 au from the star in 1995. Following a V magnitude drop from 11.7 to 13.4 in 1998, the star may have experienced significant extinction due to a dust wall created by the disk wind during the ejection of the high-velocity knot in 1999. Since then, the magnitude became fainter than 12.2, the (B - V) and (V - R) colors became redder, and the deprojected velocities consistently remained below 200 km s–1. The launching point of the jet then moved away to ∼0.45 au by 2008. The prevailing factor influencing photometric magnitude appears to be the active mass accretion causing the variable mass ejection velocities.
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© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
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Star formation - Star forming regions - Young stellar objects - Herbig-Haro objects
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