Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk
Context. The appearance of the B[e] phenomenon in evolved massive stars such as B[e] supergiants is still a mystery. While these stars are generally found to have disks that are cool and dense enough for efficient molecule and dust condensation, the origin of the disk material is still unclear. Aims...
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Ciencias Astronómicas Circumstellar matter Stars: early-type Stars: emission-line, Be Stars: individual: GG Car Supergiants |
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Ciencias Astronómicas Circumstellar matter Stars: early-type Stars: emission-line, Be Stars: individual: GG Car Supergiants Kraus, M. Oksala, M. E. Nickeler, D. H. Muratore, María Florencia Borges Fernandes, M. Aret, A. Cidale, Lydia Sonia De Wit, W. J. Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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Ciencias Astronómicas Circumstellar matter Stars: early-type Stars: emission-line, Be Stars: individual: GG Car Supergiants |
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Context. The appearance of the B[e] phenomenon in evolved massive stars such as B[e] supergiants is still a mystery. While these stars are generally found to have disks that are cool and dense enough for efficient molecule and dust condensation, the origin of the disk material is still unclear. Aims. We aim at studying the kinematics and origin of the disk in the eccentric binary system GG Car, whose primary component is proposed to be a B[e] supergiant. Methods. Based on medium- and high-resolution near-infrared spectra we analyzed the CO-band emission detected from GG Car. The complete CO-band structure delivers information on the density and temperature of the emitting region, and the detectable 13CO bands allow us to constrain the evolutionary phase. In addition, the kinematics of the CO gas can be extracted from the shape of the first 12CO band head. Results. We find that the CO gas is located in a ring surrounding the eccentric binary system, and its kinematics agrees with Keplerian rotation with a velocity, projected to the line of sight, of 80±1-km-s-1. The CO ring has a column density of (5±3)×1021 cm-2 and a temperature of 3200±500-K. In addition, the material is chemically enriched in 13C, which agrees with the primary component being slightly evolved off the main sequence. We discuss two possible scenarios for the origin of the circumbinary disk: (i) non-conservative Roche lobe overflow; and (ii) the possibility that the progenitor of the primary component could have been a classical Be star. Neither can be firmly excluded, but for Roche lobe overflow to occur, a combination of stellar and orbital parameter extrema would be required. |
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Kraus, M. Oksala, M. E. Nickeler, D. H. Muratore, María Florencia Borges Fernandes, M. Aret, A. Cidale, Lydia Sonia De Wit, W. J. |
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Kraus, M. Oksala, M. E. Nickeler, D. H. Muratore, María Florencia Borges Fernandes, M. Aret, A. Cidale, Lydia Sonia De Wit, W. J. |
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Kraus, M. |
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Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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Molecular emission from GG Carinae's circumbinary disk |
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molecular emission from gg carinae's circumbinary disk |
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2012 |
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