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WARM H2O AND OH DISK EMISSION IN V1331 Cyg

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 738, Issue 1, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/112

Keywords

circumstellar matter; infrared: stars; stars: formation; stars: individual (V1331 Cyg); stars: pre-main sequence; techniques: radial velocities; techniques: spectroscopic

Funding

  1. W. M. Keck Foundation
  2. NASA [NNH10A0061]
  3. University of California Lab [09-LR-01-118057-GRAJ]
  4. NSF [AST-0909188]
  5. Naval Research Laboratory

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We present high-resolution (R = 24,000) L-band spectra of the young intermediate-mass star V1331 Cyg obtained with NIRSPEC on the Keck II telescope. The spectra show strong, rich emission from water and OH that likely arises from the warm surface region of the circumstellar disk. We explore the use of the new BT2 water line list in fitting the spectra, and we find that it does a much better job than the well-known HITRAN water line list in the observed wavelength range and for the warm temperatures probed by our data. By comparing the observed spectra with synthetic disk emission models, we find that the water and OH emission lines have similar widths (FWHM similar or equal to 18 km s(-1)). If the line widths are set by disk rotation, the OH and water emission lines probe a similar range of disk radii in this source. The water and OH emission are consistent with thermal emission for both components at a temperature similar to 1500 K. The column densities of the emitting water and OH are large, similar to 10(21) cm(-2) and similar to 10(20) cm(-2), respectively. Such a high column density of water is more than adequate to shield the disk midplane from external UV irradiation in the event of complete dust settling out of the disk atmosphere, enabling chemical synthesis to continue in the midplane despite a harsh external UV environment. The large OH-to-water ratio is similar to expectations for UV irradiated disks, although the large OH column density is less easily accounted for.

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