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Synchrotron emission from circumstellar disks around massive stars

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We argue that the interaction of stellar wind with the surface of a circumstellar accretion (or protoplanetary) disk can result in the acceleration of relativistic electrons in an external layer of the disk, and produce synchrotron radiation. Conservative estimates give a total synchrotron luminosity Ls105\lsunL_s\sim 10^{-5}\lsun for a central star with M˙=106\msun\dot M=10^{-6}\msun yr1^{-1}, comparable with the value observed around the TW object in the W3(OH) region.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402251,
  title  = {Synchrotron emission from circumstellar disks around massive stars},
  author = {Yu. A. Shchekinov and A. M. Sobolev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402251},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figs, accepted in A&A