Issue |
A&A
Volume 642, October 2020
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Article Number | A127 | |
Number of page(s) | 12 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935610 | |
Published online | 13 October 2020 |
Selected aspects of the analysis of molecular line observations of edge-on circumbinary disks
University of Kiel, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Leibnizstrasse 15,
24118
Kiel,
Germany
e-mail: ravramenko@astrophysik.uni-kiel.de
Received:
3
April
2019
Accepted:
6
August
2020
Context. Inner cavities, accretion arms, and density waves are characteristic structures in the density distribution of circumbinary disks. They are the result of the tidal interaction of the non-axisymmetric gravitational forces of the central binary with the surrounding disk and are most prominent in the inner region, where the asymmetry is most pronounced.
Aims. The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of reconstructing the gas density distribution and quantifying properties of structures in the inner regions of edge-on circumbinary disks using multiple molecular line observations.
Methods. The density distribution in circumbinary disks is calculated with 2D hydrodynamic simulations. Subsequently, molecular line emission maps are generated with 3D radiative transfer simulations. Based on these, we investigate the observability of characteristic circumbinary structures located in the innermost region for spatially resolved and unresolved disks.
Results. We find that it is possible to reconstruct the inner cavity, accretion arms, and density waves from spatially resolved multi-wavelength molecular line observations of circumbinary disks seen edge-on. For the spatially unresolved observations only, an estimate can be derived for the density gradient in the transition area between the cavity and the disk’s inner rim.
Key words: accretion, accretion disks / binaries: general / hydrodynamics / radiative transfer
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