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  • An SMA Survey of Chemistry in Disks around Herbig AeBe Stars

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Protoplanetary disks around Herbig AeBe stars are exciting targets for studying the chemical environments where giant planets form. Save for a few disks, however, much of Herbig AeBe disk chemistry is an open frontier. We present a Submillimeter Array (SMA) $\sim$213-268 GHz pilot survey of mm continuum, CO isotopologues, and other small molecules in disks around five Herbig AeBe stars (HD 34282, HD 36112, HD 38120, HD 142666, and HD 144432). We detect or tentatively detect $^{12}$CO 2--1 and $^{13}$CO 2--1 from four disks; C$^{18}$O 2--1 and HCO$^+$ 3--2 from three disks; HCN 3--2, CS 5--4, and DCO$^+$ 3--2 from two disks; and C$_2$H 3--2 and DCN 3--2 from one disk each. H$_2$CO 3--2 is undetected at the sensitivity of our observations. The mm continuum images of HD 34282 suggest a faint, unresolved source $\sim$5\farcs0 away, which could arise from a distant orbital companion or an extended spiral arm. We fold our sample into a compilation of T Tauri and Herbig AeBe/F disks from the literature. Altogether, most line fluxes generally increase with mm continuum flux. Line flux ratios between CO 2--1 isotopologues are nearest to unity for the Herbig AeBe/F disks. This may indicate emitting layers with relatively similar, warmer temperatures and more abundant CO relative to disk dust mass. Lower HCO$^+$ 3--2 flux ratios may reflect less ionization in Herbig AeBe/F disks. Smaller detection rates and flux ratios for DCO$^+$ 3--2, DCN 3--2, and H$_2$CO 3--2 suggest smaller regimes of cold chemistry around the luminous Herbig AeBe/F stars.

  • ALMA Detection of Dust Trapping around Lagrangian Points in the LkCa 15 Disk

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: We present deep high-resolution ($\sim$50 mas, 8 au) ALMA 0.88 and 1.3 mm continuum observations of the LkCa 15 disk. The emission morphology shows an inner cavity and three dust rings at both wavelengths, but with slightly narrower rings at the longer wavelength. Along a faint ring at 42 au, we identify two excess emission features at $\sim$10$\sigma$ significance at both wavelengths: one as an unresolved clump and the other as an extended arc, separated by roughly 120 degrees in azimuth. The clump is unlikely to be a circumplanetary disk (CPD) as the emission peak shifts between the two wavelengths even after accounting for orbital motion. Instead, the morphology of the 42 au ring strongly resembles the characteristic horseshoe orbit produced in planet--disk interaction models, where the clump and the arc trace dust accumulation around Lagrangian points $L_{4}$ and $L_{5}$, respectively. The shape of the 42 au ring, dust trapping in the outer adjacent ring, and the coincidence of the horseshoe ring location with a gap in near-IR scattered light, are all consistent with the scenario of planet sculpting, with the planet likely having a mass between those of Neptune and Saturn. We do not detect point-like emission associated with a CPD around the putative planet location ($0.''27$ in projected separation from the central star at a position angle of $\sim$60\degr), with upper limits of 70 and 33 $\mu$Jy at 0.88 and 1.3 mm, respectively, corresponding to dust mass upper limits of 0.02--0.03 $M_{\oplus}$.

  • Mapping Protoplanetary Disk Vertical Structure with CO Isotopologue Line Emission

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: High spatial resolution observations of CO isotopologue line emission in protoplanetary disks at mid-inclinations (${\approx}$30-75{\deg}) allow us to characterize the gas structure in detail, including radial and vertical substructures, emission surface heights and their dependencies on source characteristics, and disk temperature profiles. By combining observations of a suite of CO isotopologues, we can map the 2D (r, z) disk structure from the disk upper atmosphere, as traced by CO, to near the midplane, as probed by less abundant isotopologues. Here, we present high angular resolution (${\lesssim}$0."1 to ${\approx}$0."2; ${\approx}$15-30 au) observations of CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O in either or both J=2-1 and J=3-2 lines in the transition disks around DM Tau, Sz 91, LkCa 15, and HD 34282. We derived line emission surfaces in CO for all disks and in $^{13}$CO for the DM Tau and LkCa 15 disks. With these observations, we do not resolve the vertical structure of C$^{18}$O in any disk, which is instead consistent with C$^{18}$O emission originating from the midplane. Both the J=2-1 and J=3-2 lines show similar heights. Using the derived emission surfaces, we computed radial and vertical gas temperature distributions for each disk, including empirical temperature models for the DM Tau and LkCa 15 disks. After combining our sample with literature sources, we find that $^{13}$CO line emitting heights are also tentatively linked with source characteristics, e.g., stellar host mass, gas temperature, disk size, and show steeper trends than seen in CO emission surfaces.

  • CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 observations toward Arp 299 with the SMA

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Dense gas is the key for understanding star formation in galaxies. We present high resolution ($\sim3''$) observations of CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 as dense gas tracers toward Arp 299, a mid stage major merger of galaxies, with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The spatial distribution of CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 are generally consistent with each other, as well as HCN 1-0 in literature. However, different line ratios of CS 5-4 and CN 2-1 are found in A, B, and C regions, with highest value in B. Dense gas fraction decreases from IC 694 (A), to NGC 3690 (B) and the overlap starburst region (C and C$'$), which indicates that circum-nuclear upcoming starburst in A and B will be more efficient than that in the overlap region of Arp 299.

  • CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 observations toward Arp 299 with the SMA

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Dense gas is the key for understanding star formation in galaxies. We present high resolution ($\sim3''$) observations of CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 as dense gas tracers toward Arp 299, a mid stage major merger of galaxies, with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The spatial distribution of CN 2-1 and CS 5-4 are generally consistent with each other, as well as HCN 1-0 in literature. However, different line ratios of CS 5-4 and CN 2-1 are found in A, B, and C regions, with highest value in B. Dense gas fraction decreases from IC 694 (A), to NGC 3690 (B) and the overlap starburst region (C and C$'$), which indicates that circum-nuclear upcoming starburst in A and B will be more efficient than that in the overlap region of Arp 299.