抄録
We study formation and long-term evolution of a circumstellar disk using a resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation. While the formed circumstellar disk is initially small, it grows as accretion continues and its radius becomes as large as 200 AUs toward the end of the Class-I phase. A pair of grand-design spiral arms form due to gravitational instability in the disk, and they transfer angular momentum. Although the spiral arms disappear in a few rotations, new spiral arms form recurrently throughout the Class-0 and I phases as the disk soon becomes unstable again by gas accretion. Using synthetic observation, we compare our model with a recent high-resolution observation of Elias 2-27, whose circumstellar disk has grand design spiral arms, and find good agreement. Our model suggests that the grand design spiral arms around Elias 2-27 are consistent with material arms formed by gravitational instability. If such spiral arms commonly exist in young circumstellar disks, it implies that young circumstellar disks are considerably massive and gravitational instability is the key process of angular momentum transport.
本文言語 | 英語 |
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ページ(範囲) | 822-823 |
ページ数 | 2 |
ジャーナル | Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana - Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society |
巻 | 88 |
号 | 4 |
出版ステータス | 出版済み - 1月 1 2017 |
イベント | 2017 Conference Francesco's Legacy: Star Formation in Space and Time - Firenze, イタリア 継続期間: 6月 5 2017 → 6月 9 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- 電子工学および電気工学
- 放射線学、核医学およびイメージング
- 天文学と天体物理学
- 器械工学
- 原子分子物理学および光学