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Natural Coronagraphic Observations of the Eclipsing T Tauri System KH 15D: Evidence of Accretion and Bipolar Outflow in a Weak-Line T Tauri Star
We present high-resolution (R~44,000) UV-Visual Echelle Spectrographspectra of the eclipsing pre-main-sequence star KH 15D covering thewavelength range 4780-6810 Å obtained at three phases: out ofeclipse, near minimum light, and during egress. The system evidentlyacts as a natural coronagraph, enhancing the contrast relative to thecontinuum of hydrogen and forbidden emission lines during eclipse. Atmaximum light, the Hα equivalent width was ~2 Å and theprofile showed broad wings and a deep central absorption. During egress,the equivalent width was much higher (~70 Å) and the broad wings,which extend to +/-300 km s-1, were prominent. During eclipsetotality, the equivalent width was less than during egress (~40 Å)and the high-velocity wings were much weaker. Hβ showed a somewhatdifferent behavior, revealing only the blueshifted portion of thehigh-velocity component during eclipse and egress. [O I]λλ6300, 6363 lines are easily seen both out of eclipse andwhen the photosphere is obscured and exhibit little or no flux variationwith the eclipse phase. Our interpretation is that KH 15D, althoughclearly a weak-line T Tauri star by the usual criteria, is stillaccreting matter from a circumstellar disk and has a well-collimatedbipolar jet. As the knife-edge of the occulting matter passes across theclose stellar environment, it is evidently revealing structure in themagnetosphere of this pre-main-sequence star with unprecedented spatialresolution. We also show that there is only a small, perhaps marginallysignificant change in the velocity of the K7 star between the maximumlight and egress phases probed here.Based on UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph observations collected at theEuropean Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope via Director'sDiscretionary Time, within the observing program P267.C-5736.
| Hipparcos red stars in the HpV_T2 and V I_C systems
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| Large and kinematically unbiased samples of G- and K-type stars. V - Evolved stars in the selected areas at + 15-deg declination
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| UBV photometry of stars whose positions are accurately known.
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| A sample of old-disk-population red giants.
Abstract image available at:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1976PASP...88..426E&db_key=AST
| Photoelectric radial velocities. IV. 528 7 to 10 mag stars in the +15degree selected areas.
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| Constellation: | Gemini |
| Right ascension: | 07h15m52.24s |
| Declination: | +14°48'30.7" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.197 |
| Distance: | 171.821 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -3.2 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -33.1 |
| B-T magnitude: | 10.175 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.361 |
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