Wind-driven Accretion in Transitional Protostellar Disks

Abstract

Transitional protostellar disks have inner cavities heavily depleted in dust and gas, yet most show signs of ongoing accretion, often at rates comparable to full disks. We show that recent constraints on the gas surface density in a few well-studied disk cavities imply that the accretion speed is at least transsonic. We propose that this is the natural result of accretion driven by magnetized winds. Typical physical conditions of the gas inside such cavities are estimated for plausible X-ray and FUV radiation fields. The gas is molecular and predominantly neutral, with a dimensionless ambipolar parameter in the right general range for wind solutions of the type developed by Königl, Wardle, and others. That is to say, the density of ions and electrons is sufficient for moderately good coupling to the magnetic field, but not so good that the magnetic flux need be dragged inward by the accreting neutrals.

7 pages, 2 figures; submitted to ApJ

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