Modeling the Multiwavelength Evolution of the V960 Mon System

Abstract

We study the evolution of the FU Ori object V960 Mon since its outburst, using available multiwavelength photometric time series over 8 yr, complemented by several epochs of moderate-dispersion spectrophotometry. We find that the source fading can be well-described by a decrease in the temperature of the inner disk, which results from a combination of decreasing accretion rate and increasing inner disk radius. We model the system with a disk atmosphere model that produces the observed variations in multiband photometry (this paper) and high-resolution spectral lines (a companion paper).

Keywords

• FU Orionis stars
• Young stellar objects
• Infrared sources
• Stellar accretion disks
• Optical bursts