Disentangling the Wind and the Disk in the Close Surrounding of the Young Stellar Object MWC297 with AMBER/VLTI
/ Authors
F. Malbet, M. Benisty, W. D. Wit, S. Kraus, A. Meilland, F. Millour, E. Tatulli, J. Berger, O. Chesneau, K. Hofmann
and 6 more authors
A. Isella, R. Petrov, T. Preibisch, P. Stee, L. Testi, G. Weigelt
/ Abstract
The young stellar object MWC297 is a B1.5Ve star exhibiting strong hydrogen emission lines. This object has been observed by the AMBER/VLTI instrument in 2-telescope mode in a sub-region of the K spectral band centered around the Br gamma line at 2.1656 microns. The object has not only been resolved in the continuum with a visibility of 0.50+/-0.10, but also in the Br gamma line, where the flux is about twice larger, with a visibility about twice smaller (0.33+/-0.06). The continuum emission is consistent with the expectation of an optically thick thermal emission from dust in a circumstellar disk. The hydrogen emission can be understood by the emission of a halo above the disk surface. It can be modelled as a latitudinal-dependant wind model and it explains the width, the strength and the visibibility through the emission lines. The AMBER data associated with a high resolution ISAAC spectrum constrains the apparent size of the wind but also its kinematics.