The interplay between disk wind and magnetospheric accretion mechanisms in the innermost environment of RU Lup

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Auteurs principaux: Wojtczak, J. A., Tessore, B., Labadie, L., Perraut, K., Bouvier, J., Dougados, C., Nowacki, H., Soulain, A., Alécian, E., Pantolmos, G., Ferreira, J., Straubmeier, C., Eckart, A.
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author Wojtczak, J. A.
Tessore, B.
Labadie, L.
Perraut, K.
Bouvier, J.
Dougados, C.
Nowacki, H.
Soulain, A.
Alécian, E.
Pantolmos, G.
Ferreira, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Eckart, A.
author_facet Wojtczak, J. A.
Tessore, B.
Labadie, L.
Perraut, K.
Bouvier, J.
Dougados, C.
Nowacki, H.
Soulain, A.
Alécian, E.
Pantolmos, G.
Ferreira, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Eckart, A.
contents Aims: Our aim is to build upon the analysis presented in our previous work by attempting to match the observational data obtained with VLTI GRAVITY for RU Lup in 2021 with an expanded radiative transfer model of Br$γ$ emission. Specifically, we will determine if the inclusion of an additional disk wind as a Br$γ$ emitter in the inner disk will be able to reproduce the trend of increasing sizes at higher velocities, as well as the observed photocenter shifts. Methods: We make use of the MCFOST radiative transfer code to solve for Br$γ$ line formation in the innermost disk of an RU Lupl-like system. From the resulting images we compute synthetic interferometric observables. We first investigate how individual parameter variations in a pure magnetospheric accretion model and a pure parameteric disk wind model translate to changes in these derived quantities. Then we attempt to reproduce the RU Lup GRAVITY data with different parameter variants of magnetospheric accretion models, disk wind models, and combined hybrid models. Results: We demonstrate that magnetospheric accretion models and disk wind models on their own can emulate certain individual characteristics from the observational results, but individually fail to comprehensively reproduce the observational trends. Disk wind plus accretion hybrid models are in principle capable of explaining the variation in characteristic radii across the line and the corresponding flux ratios. While the model parameters of the hybrid models are mostly in good agreement with the known attributes of RU Lup, we find that our best-fitting models deviate in terms of rotational period and the size of the magnetosphere. The best-fitting hybrid model does not respect the co-rotation criterion, as the magnetospheric truncation radius is about 50% larger than the co-rotation radius.
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spellingShingle The interplay between disk wind and magnetospheric accretion mechanisms in the innermost environment of RU Lup
Wojtczak, J. A.
Tessore, B.
Labadie, L.
Perraut, K.
Bouvier, J.
Dougados, C.
Nowacki, H.
Soulain, A.
Alécian, E.
Pantolmos, G.
Ferreira, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Eckart, A.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Aims: Our aim is to build upon the analysis presented in our previous work by attempting to match the observational data obtained with VLTI GRAVITY for RU Lup in 2021 with an expanded radiative transfer model of Br$γ$ emission. Specifically, we will determine if the inclusion of an additional disk wind as a Br$γ$ emitter in the inner disk will be able to reproduce the trend of increasing sizes at higher velocities, as well as the observed photocenter shifts. Methods: We make use of the MCFOST radiative transfer code to solve for Br$γ$ line formation in the innermost disk of an RU Lupl-like system. From the resulting images we compute synthetic interferometric observables. We first investigate how individual parameter variations in a pure magnetospheric accretion model and a pure parameteric disk wind model translate to changes in these derived quantities. Then we attempt to reproduce the RU Lup GRAVITY data with different parameter variants of magnetospheric accretion models, disk wind models, and combined hybrid models. Results: We demonstrate that magnetospheric accretion models and disk wind models on their own can emulate certain individual characteristics from the observational results, but individually fail to comprehensively reproduce the observational trends. Disk wind plus accretion hybrid models are in principle capable of explaining the variation in characteristic radii across the line and the corresponding flux ratios. While the model parameters of the hybrid models are mostly in good agreement with the known attributes of RU Lup, we find that our best-fitting models deviate in terms of rotational period and the size of the magnetosphere. The best-fitting hybrid model does not respect the co-rotation criterion, as the magnetospheric truncation radius is about 50% larger than the co-rotation radius.
title The interplay between disk wind and magnetospheric accretion mechanisms in the innermost environment of RU Lup
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03186