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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 655, Issue 1, Pages 345-350Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/508770
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accretion, accretion disks; stars : individual (TW Hydrae); stars : mass loss; stars : pre-main-sequence
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It has recently been suggested that the winds from classical T Tauri stars in general, and the wind from TW Hya in particular, reaches temperatures of 300,000 K while maintaining a mass- loss rate of similar to 10(-11)M(circle dot)yr(-1) or larger. If confirmed, this would place strong new requirements on wind launching and heating models. We therefore reexamine spectra from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope and spectra from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite in an effort to better constrain the maximum temperature in the wind of TW Hya. We find clear evidence for a wind in the C II doublet at 1037 angstrom and in the C II multiplet at 1335 angstrom. We find no wind absorption in the C IV lambda 1550 doublet observed at the same time as the C II lambda 1335 line or in observations of O VI observed simultaneously with the C II lambda 1037 line. The presence or absence of C III wind absorption is ambiguous. The clear lack of a wind in the C IV line argues that the wind from TW Hya does not reach the 100,000 K characteristic formation temperature of this line. We therefore argue that the available evidence suggests that the wind from TW Hya, and perhaps all classical T Tauri stars, reaches a maximum temperature in the range of 10,000 - 30,000 K.
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