Variable Accretion Outbursts in Protostellar Evolution：（变量在原恒星进化的吸积爆发）.pdfVIP

Variable Accretion Outbursts in Protostellar Evolution 1 1 2 3,4 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu , Charles Gammie jaehbae@umich.edu, lhartm@umich.edu, zhuzh@astro.princeton.edu, 2 gammie@illinois.edu 1 0 2 ABSTRACT c e D We extend the one-dimensional, two-zone models of long-term protostellar disk evolution 8 with infall of Zhu et al. to consider the potential effects of a finite viscosity in regions where the 2 ionization is too low for the magnetorotational instability (MRI) to operate (the “dead zone”). ] R We find that the presence of a small but finite dead zone viscosity, as suggested by simulations of S stratified disks with MRI-active outer layers, can trigger inside-out bursts of accretion, starting . h at or near the inner edge of the disk, instead of the previously-found outside-in bursts with zero p dead zone viscosity, which originate at a few AU in radius. These inside-out bursts of accretion - o bear a qualitative resemblance to the outburst behavior of one FU Ori object, V1515 Cyg, in r t contrast to the outside-in burst models which more closely resemble the accretion events in FU s a Ori and V1057 Cyg. Our results suggest that the type and frequency of outbursts are potentially [ a probe of transport efficiency in the dead zone. Simulations must treat the inner disk regions, 1 v R 0.5 AU, to show the detailed time evolution of accretion outbursts in general and to observe 4 the inside-out bursts in particu