Constraining Protoplanetary Disk Winds from Forbidden Line Profiles with Simulation-based Inference

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Autori principali: Nemer, Ahmad, Hahn, ChangHoon, Li, Jiaxuan, Melchior, Peter, Goodman, Jeremy
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author Nemer, Ahmad
Hahn, ChangHoon
Li, Jiaxuan
Melchior, Peter
Goodman, Jeremy
author_facet Nemer, Ahmad
Hahn, ChangHoon
Li, Jiaxuan
Melchior, Peter
Goodman, Jeremy
contents Protoplanetary disks are the sites of vigorous hydrodynamic processes, such as accretion and outflows, and ultimately establish the conditions for the formation of planets. The properties of disk outflows are often inferred through analysis of forbidden emission lines. These lines contain multiple overlapping components, tracing different emission regions with different processes that excite them: a high-velocity component (tracing a jet), a broad low-velocity component (tracing inner disk wind), and a narrow low-velocity component (tracing outer disk wind). They are also heavily contaminated by background spectral features. All of these challenges call into question the traditional approach of fitting Gaussian components to the line profiles, and cloud the physical interpretation of those components. We introduce a novel statistical technique to analyze emission lines in protoplanetary disks. Simulation-Based Inference is a computationally efficient machine learning technique that produces posterior distributions of the parameters (e.g. magnetic field, radiation sources, geometry) of a representative wind model when given a spectrum, without any prior assumption about line shapes (e.g.symmetry). In this pathfinder study, we demonstrate that this technique indeed accurately recovers the parameters from simulated spectra without noise and background. A following work will deal with the analysis of observed spectra.
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spellingShingle Constraining Protoplanetary Disk Winds from Forbidden Line Profiles with Simulation-based Inference
Nemer, Ahmad
Hahn, ChangHoon
Li, Jiaxuan
Melchior, Peter
Goodman, Jeremy
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Protoplanetary disks are the sites of vigorous hydrodynamic processes, such as accretion and outflows, and ultimately establish the conditions for the formation of planets. The properties of disk outflows are often inferred through analysis of forbidden emission lines. These lines contain multiple overlapping components, tracing different emission regions with different processes that excite them: a high-velocity component (tracing a jet), a broad low-velocity component (tracing inner disk wind), and a narrow low-velocity component (tracing outer disk wind). They are also heavily contaminated by background spectral features. All of these challenges call into question the traditional approach of fitting Gaussian components to the line profiles, and cloud the physical interpretation of those components. We introduce a novel statistical technique to analyze emission lines in protoplanetary disks. Simulation-Based Inference is a computationally efficient machine learning technique that produces posterior distributions of the parameters (e.g. magnetic field, radiation sources, geometry) of a representative wind model when given a spectrum, without any prior assumption about line shapes (e.g.symmetry). In this pathfinder study, we demonstrate that this technique indeed accurately recovers the parameters from simulated spectra without noise and background. A following work will deal with the analysis of observed spectra.
title Constraining Protoplanetary Disk Winds from Forbidden Line Profiles with Simulation-based Inference
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10243