TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Far-ultraviolet Pumping in Exciting the [Oi] Lines in Protostellar Disks and Winds
AU - Nemer, Ahmad
AU - Goodman, Jeremy
AU - Wang, Lile
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - We use Cloudy to re-examine excitation of [O i] 6300 and [O i] 5577 in the X-ray driven photoevaporative wind models of Owen and collaborators, and in more recent magnetothermal models by Wang et al. We find that, at the measured accretion luminosities, the far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation would populate the upper levels of the oxygen, which would eventually contribute to the [O i] lines. FUV pumping competes with collisions as an excitation mechanism of the [O i] lines, and they each originate from a distinct region in the protostellar disk environment. Consequently, the line strengths and shapes of [O i] 6300 and [O i] 5577 would be affected by the inclusion of FUV pumping in the radiation transport simulations.
AB - We use Cloudy to re-examine excitation of [O i] 6300 and [O i] 5577 in the X-ray driven photoevaporative wind models of Owen and collaborators, and in more recent magnetothermal models by Wang et al. We find that, at the measured accretion luminosities, the far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation would populate the upper levels of the oxygen, which would eventually contribute to the [O i] lines. FUV pumping competes with collisions as an excitation mechanism of the [O i] lines, and they each originate from a distinct region in the protostellar disk environment. Consequently, the line strengths and shapes of [O i] 6300 and [O i] 5577 would be affected by the inclusion of FUV pumping in the radiation transport simulations.
KW - Atomic physics (2063)
KW - Atomic spectroscopy (2099)
KW - Protoplanetary disks (1300)
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U2 - 10.3847/2041-8213/abc9b6
DO - 10.3847/2041-8213/abc9b6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097472849
SN - 2041-8205
VL - 904
JO - Astrophysical Journal Letters
JF - Astrophysical Journal Letters
IS - 2
M1 - L27
ER -