The Effect of Rotational Gravity Darkening on Magnetically Torqued Be Star Disks.pdfVIP

The Effect of Rotational Gravity Darkening on Magnetically Torqued Be Star Disks 1 1 1,4 2 3 5,6 J. C. Brown, D. Telfer, Q. Li, R. Hanuschik, J. P. Cassinelli, and A. Kholtygin 1Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; 2European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany; 3Dept. of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; 4 4Dept. of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, China; 0 5 0 Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg State University, 2 V.V.Sobolev Astronomical Institute, 198504 Russia; l 6Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, St.Petersburg Branch u J 2 Accepted . Received ; in original form 1 v ABSTRACT 9 3 0 In the magnetically torqued disk (MTD) model for hot star disks, as proposed 7 and formulated by Cassinelli et al. (2002), stellar wind mass loss was taken to be 0 4 uniform over the stellar surface. Here account is taken of the fact that as stellar 0 spin rate S (= 2 3 / o Ω R /GM ) is increased, and the stellar equator is gravity h o p darkened, the equatorial mass flux and terminal speed are reduced, compared - ˙ o to the poles, for a given total M . As a result, the distribution of equatorial r disk density, determined by the impact of north and southbound flows