x-ray diagnostics of magnetospheric accretion in tts thierry montmerle laboratoire...
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X-ray diagnostics of magnetospheric accretion
in TTS
X-ray diagnostics of magnetospheric accretion
in TTSThierry MontmerleLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
and Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France
Thierry MontmerleLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
and Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France
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X-rays vs. Accretion shocks
• X-rays only probe of accretion shocks (free-fall velocities from circumstellar disk: ≈ 200-300 km/s)
• Very hard to detect, because of many other sources of X-rays in the environment of young stars:– Magnetic activity ("coronal" X-rays): x1000 – Jet/outflow shocks (ejection and accretion ~ same
velocities !): ~ 10 individual cases known
• In other words, accretion is the signal, flares are the noise !
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Basic magnetic structure of a "classical" (= accreting) T Tauri star
Stassun 2001
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A complex X-ray emitting accretion-ejection configuration...
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ChanneledWind
Hot CoronalWind ?
Hot-base, Cool
Cooling Disk
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HAeBe ?
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Soft X-rays (E ≲ 0.8 keV)
Post-shock zone T ~ 106 K
Pre-shock zone
T ~ 104 Kne~1011-1012 cm-3
chromosphere T ~ 104 K
Shock surface
vacc
~ 3
00
-5
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km
/s
(Lamizin 1998, Calvet & Gullbring 1998) Example:
M = 1 M
Macc = 10-10 M/yrRT = 5 R
Magnetospheric accretion and X-rays: some numbers
T = 3 MKLX = 7 x 1031 erg/s ~ 105 x LX,
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X-ray accretion diagnostics (in a nutshell)
• First detection: TW Hya (CTTS)– Chandra HETGS (Kastner et al. 2002)– Characteristics: soft spectra (TX ~ 2 MK), high plasma
densities (log ne ~ 13: ~ 100-1000x coronal)– Key diagnostic: He-like triplets (OVII, NeIX…)
• Line ratios: Direct, independent determinations of ne and TX
• Found in no more than ~ 10 individual stars so far– Requires HRS [high-resolution spectroscopy: E/E = f(E) ~
300-800] (XMM RGS; Chandra HETGS): lots of photons ! – Some statistical evidence from low-resolution
spectroscopy [E/E ~ 20-50] (Chandra ACIS, XMM EPIC): "soft excess" (TX ≲ 1 keV, e.g., XEST survey; flux too weak for HRS => ne impossible to determine)
– Deepest study (very long exposures): V4046 Sgr
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The OVII and NeIX triplets: signature of accretion ?
Brickhouse et al. 2010: Chandra
f(forbidden)/i(intercombination) line ratio sensitive to plasma density f/i ~0.05 => ne ~ 1012 cm-3
(f+i)/r(resonance) line ratio sensitive to temperature TX (MK)
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TW Hya
Key questions…• Location of accretion shock wrt the stellar photosphere
(HD + transfer problem)• Interplay between coronal loops and accretion funnels
(MHD problem)– Magnetic field topology
• Intrinsic variability (bursts…)• => 2D MHD modeling (Palermo group: Orlando et al.
2008, Sacco et al. 2010; Brickhouse et al. 2010…)– Accretion stream falling along magnetic “tube” ⊥
photosphere– => accretion rate, confinement efficiency, instabilities, etc.– (private show if interested…)
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Case study: XMM “Large Program” on the “twin binary”
V4046 Sgr(preliminary results)
“VSag consortium”: TM, E. Alecian & J. Bouvier (LAOG), with C. Argiroffi, F. Damiani, & A. Maggio (Palermo), S. Alencar (Belo Horizonte), M. Audard (Geneva), J.-F. Donati (Toulouse), S. Gregory (Exeter), M. Güdel (Vienna), V. Holzwarth (Freiburg), D. Huenemoerder (MIT), J. Kastner, R. Montez & G. Sacco (Rochester), G. Wade (Kingston) CC2YSO (17-19/5/10
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V4046 Sgr Identity card
• Two almost identical components, at d ~ 83 pc; with M ~ 0.9 Ma, R ~ 1.2 Ra; L ~ 0.4 La
• perhaps a 3rd companion (binary ?) at 14000 AU• Orbital period ~ 2.42 d (close binary => synchronous
rotation)
• i = 35°, sep. ~ 4.5 Ra
• CTTS: circumbinary disk • accretion flow seen in H…• Age ~ few Myr
• => main goal: look for orbitalmodulation of accretionparameters
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Stempels & Gahm 2004
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Coordinated space/ground observations
• XMM “Large Program” (3x100 ksec; 500 ksec total):– 3 consecutive revolutions (2d = 173 ksec), each partially
sampled– Looking for orbital/rotational modulation– 3 instruments: EPIC, RGS, + OM (Optical Monitor)
• Coordinated ground-based observations:– Spectrophotometry (optical)
• Espadons@CFHT(Hawaii)
– Photometry (optical, NIR)• REM (La Silla)• Pico dos Dias (Brazil)• SARG@TNG (Canary Islands)
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Pico dos Dias: —— —— —
REM
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EPIC (pn + 2xMOS)
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EPIC (pn + 2xMOS)
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(to be continued…)
Epilogue: IXO (? ~ 2020 ?)
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~ 20m
High-resolution spectra of T Tauri stars with IXO
XMS matrix: 2.5eV resol.(E/E ~ 1000)
IXO/XGS(+XMS) potential:
• good S/N spectra in < 100 ksec for TTS up to 500 pc (Taurus, Cha, Orion, etc) ne in CTTS accretion vs. corona
• time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy (~ 10 ksec exp. for bright TTS) exposure/30 compared to XMM ne variations probing accretion structure ne variations in stellar flares
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(after B. Stelzer 2010)
Additional material:modeling accretion shocks
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MP Mus: Spectral synthesis
Observed spectrum (XMM-RGS)
Spectrum synthesized from the simulations (taking into account instrumental response , distance and interstellar absorption and assuming accretion flow cross section)
Temperature diagnostic
density diagnostic
(Sacco et al. 2008)
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ne = 1011 cm-3
v = 450 km s-1
B = 1, 10, 50 G
MP Mus
2D MHD simulations
Orlando et al. 2009
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B = 1 GCC2YSO (17-19/5/10
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