The protoplanetary disk of FT Tauri: multi-wavelength data analysis and modeling

TL;DR

This study provides a comprehensive multi-wavelength analysis and modeling of the protoplanetary disk around FT Tauri, offering insights into its properties, accretion, and ejection processes, serving as a benchmark for similar primordial disks.

Contribution

It presents a detailed gas and dust model of FT Tauri's disk based on extensive observational data and advanced modeling, advancing understanding of young star disk evolution.

Findings

FT Tauri has a high mass accretion rate.

The disk shows significant gas content and typical size.

The model serves as a benchmark for primordial disks.

Abstract

Investigating the evolution of protoplanetary disks is crucial for our understanding of star and planet formation. Several theoretical and observational studies have been performed in the last decades to advance this knowledge. FT Tauri is a young star in the Taurus star forming region that was included in a number of spectroscopic and photometric surveys. We investigate the properties of the star, the circumstellar disk, and the accretion and ejection processes and propose a consistent gas and dust model also as a reference for future observational studies. We performed a multi-wavelength data analysis to derive the basic stellar and disk properties, as well as mass accretion/outflow rate from TNG-Dolores, WHT-Liris, NOT-Notcam, Keck-Nirspec, and Herschel-Pacs spectra. From the literature, we compiled a complete Spectral Energy Distribution. We then performed detailed disk modeling using the MCFOST and ProDiMo codes. Multi-wavelengths spectroscopic and photometric measurements were compared with the reddened predictions of the codes in order to constrain the disk properties. This object can serve as a benchmark for primordial disks with significant mass accretion rate, high gas content and typical size.