Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): Characterization of the young star T CrA and its circumstellar environment

Abstract

Birth environments of young stars have strong imprints on the star itself and their surroundings. We present a detailed analysis of the wealthy circumstellar environment around the young Herbig Ae/Be star TCrA. Our aim is to understand the nature of the stellar system and the extended circumstellar structures as seen in scattered light images. We conduct our analysis combining archival data, and new adaptive optics high-contrast and high-resolution images. The scattered light images reveal the presence of a complex environment composed of a bright forward scattering rim of the disk's surface that is seen at very high inclination, a dark lane of the disk midplane, bipolar outflows, and streamer features likely tracing infalling material from the surrounding birth cloud onto the disk. The analysis of the light curve suggests the star is a binary with a period of 29.6yrs. The comparison of the scattered light images with ALMA continuum and 12CO line emission shows the disk is in keplerian rotation, with the northern side of the outflowing material receding, while the southern side approaching the observer. The disk is itself seen edge-on. The direction of the outflows seen in scattered light is in agreement with the direction of the more distant molecular hydrogen emission-line objects (MHOs) associated to the star. Modeling of the SED using a radiative transfer scheme well agrees with the proposed configuration, as well as the hydrodynamical simulation performed using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code. We find evidence of streamers of accreting material around TCrA. These streamers connect the filament along which TCrA is forming with the outer parts of the disk, suggesting that the strong misalignment between the inner and outer disk is due to a change in the direction of the angular momentum of the material accreting on the disk during the late phase of star formation.

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