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- 2017
The wind and the magnetospheric accretion onto the T Tauri star S Coronae Australis at sub-au resolutionDOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731058 Abstract: Aims. To investigate the inner regions of protoplanetary discs, we performed near-infrared interferometric observations of the classical T Tauri binary system S?CrA.Methods. We present the first VLTI-GRAVITY high spectral resolution (R ~ 4000) observations of a classical T Tauri binary, S?CrA (composed of S?CrA?N and S?CrA?S and separated by ~1.?4), combining the four 8m telescopes in dual-field mode. Results. Our observations in the near-infrared K-band continuum reveal a disc around each binary component, with similar half-flux radii of about 0.1 au at d ~ 130?pc, inclinations (i = 28 ± 3° and i = 22 ± 6°), and position angles (PA = 0°± 6° and PA = –2°± 12°), suggesting that they formed from the fragmentation of a common disc. The S?CrA?N spectrum shows bright He?i and Brγ line emission exhibiting inverse P?Cygni profiles, typically associated with infalling gas. The continuum-compensated Brγ line visibilities of S?CrA?N show the presence of a compact Brγ emitting region whose radius is about ~0.06?au, which is twice as big as the truncation radius. This component is mostly tracing a wind. Moreover, a slight radius change between the blue- and red-shifted Brγ line components is marginally detected.Conclusions. The presence of an inverse P?Cygni profile in the He?i and Brγ lines, along with the tentative detection of a slightly larger size of the blue-shifted Brγ line component, hint at the simultaneous presence of a wind and magnetospheric accretion in S?CrA?N
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