The disk physical conditions of 48 Persei constrained by contemporaneous Hα spectroscopy and interferometry

Abstract

We utilize a multi-step modelling process to produce synthetic interferometric and spectroscopic observables, which are then compared to their observed counterparts. Our extensive set of interferometric observations of the Be star 48 Per, totaling 291 data points, were obtained at the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer from 2006 Nov 07 to 2006 Nov 23. Our models were further constrained by comparison with contemporaneous H$\alpha$ line spectroscopy obtained at the John S. Hall Telescope at Lowell Observatory on 2006 Nov 1. Theoretical spectral energy distributions, SEDs, for 48~Per were confirmed by comparison with observations over a wavelength regime of 0.4 to 60 microns from Touhami et al. (2010) and Vieira et al. (2017). Our best-fitting combined model from H$\alpha$ spectroscopy, H$\alpha$ interferometry and SED fitting has a power law density fall off, $n$, of 2.3 and an initial density at the stellar surface of ${\rho }_0=1.0\times 10^{-11}{\mathrm{g}\mathrm{cm}}^{-3}$ with a inclination constrained by H$\alpha$ spectroscopy and interferometry of 45${}^{\circ }\pm 5^{\circ }$. The position angle for the system, measured east from north, is 121${}^{\circ }$ $\pm$ 1${}^{\circ }$. Our best-fit model shows that the disk emission originates in a moderately large disk with a radius of 25 R${}_{\ast }$ which is consistent with a disk mass of approximately 5 $\times$ 10${}^{24}$ g or 3 $\times$ 10${}^{-10}$ M${}_{\ast }$. Finally, we compare our results with previous studies of 48~Per by Quirrenbach et al. (1997) with agreement but find, with our much larger data set, that our disk size contradicts the findings of Delaa et al. (2011).

26 pages, 9 figures

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