Synchrotron emission from circumstellar disks around massive stars

Abstract

We argue that the interaction of stellar wind with the surface of a circumstellar accretion (or protoplanetary) disk can result in the acceleration of relativistic electrons in an external layer of the disk, and produce synchrotron radiation. Conservative estimates give a total synchrotron luminosity Ls 10-5 for a central star with M=10-6 yr-1, comparable with the value observed around the TW object in the W3(OH) region.

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