J/ApJ/908/8       The TW Hya Rosetta Stone Project. III.       (Calahan+, 2021)

The TW Hya Rosetta Stone Project. III. Resolving the gaseous thermal profile of the disk. Calahan J.K., Bergin E., Zhang Ke, Teague R., Cleeves I., Bergner J., Blake G.A., Cazzoletti P., Guzman V., Hogerheijde M. R, Huang J., Kama M., Loomis R., Oberg K., Qi C., van Dishoeck E.F., van Scheltinga J.T., Walsh C., Wilner D. <Astrophys. J., 908, 8 (2021)> =2021ApJ...908....8C 2021ApJ...908....8C
ADC_Keywords: Stars, pre-main sequence; Carbon monoxide; Molecular data; Millimetric/submm sources; Interstellar medium Keywords: Protoplanetary disks ; Astrochemistry Abstract: The thermal structure of protoplanetary disks is a fundamental characteristic of the system that has wide-reaching effects on disk evolution and planet formation. In this study, we constrain the 2D thermal structure of the protoplanetary disk TW Hya structure utilizing images of seven CO lines. This includes new ALMA observations of 12CO J=2-1 and C18O J=2-1 as well as archival ALMA observations of 12CO J=3-2, 13CO J=3-2 and 6-5, and C18O J=3-2 and 6-5. Additionally, we reproduce a Herschel observation of the HD J=1-0 line flux and the spectral energy distribution and utilize a recent quantification of CO radial depletion in TW Hya. These observations were modeled using the thermochemical code RAC2D, and our best-fit model reproduces all spatially resolved CO surface brightness profiles. The resulting thermal profile finds a disk mass of 0.025M and a thin upper layer of gas depleted of small dust with a thickness of ∼1.2% of the corresponding radius. Using our final thermal structure, we find that CO alone is not a viable mass tracer, as its abundance is degenerate with the total H2 surface density. Different mass models can readily match the spatially resolved CO line profiles with disparate abundance assumptions. Mass determination requires additional knowledge, and, in this work, HD provides the additional constraint to derive the gas mass and support the inference of CO depletion in the TW Hya disk. Our final thermal structure confirms the use of HD as a powerful probe of protoplanetary disk mass. Additionally, the method laid out in this paper is an employable strategy for extraction of disk temperatures and masses in the future. Description: We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of 12CO 2-1 and C18O 2-1 taken as a part of the Rosetta collaboration; program 2016.1.00311.S (PI Cleeves). The compact observations (baselines down to 15m) were obtained on 2016 December 16 in configuration C43-3 for a total on-source integration time of 81 minutes. The extended observations (baselines up to 1124m) were carried out on 2017 May 5 and 7 in C43-6 with an on-source integration time of 25 minutes. See Section 2.1. Archival ALMA data were also used for 12CO 3-2, C18O 3-2 and 6-5, and 13CO 3-2 and 6-5. Observations are described in Schwarz+ (2016ApJ...823...91S 2016ApJ...823...91S). The archival HD J=1-0 flux measurement from Herschel and SED fluxes from the literature were also used. Data points for the SED were taken from Cleeves+ (2015ApJ...799..204C 2015ApJ...799..204C). See Section 2.3. Integrated emission maps of TW Hya in 12CO J=2-1 and 3-2, 13CO J=3-2 and 6-5, and C18O J=2-1, 3-2, and 6-5 are presented in Figure 1. Objects: ---------------------------------------------------------- RA (ICRS) DE Designation(s) ---------------------------------------------------------- 11 01 51.90 -34 42 17.0 TW Hya = V* TW Hya ---------------------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file fig6.dat 49 10000 The final 2D thermal structure of the gas that reproduces seven resolved ALMA CO lines, HD flux, and the SED (Data behind Figure 6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/347 : Distances to 1.33 billion stars in Gaia DR2 (Bailer-Jones+, 2018) I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018) I/355 : Gaia DR3 Part 1. Main source (Gaia Collaboration, 2022) J/ApJS/101/117 : UBVRIJHKLMNQ photometry in Taurus-Auriga (Kenyon+ 1995) J/ApJ/828/46 : ALMA survey of Lupus protoplanetary disks. I. (Ansdell+, 2016) J/A+A/592/A49 : TW Hya CO (2-1), CN (2-1) & CS (5-4) data (Teague+, 2016) J/A+A/592/A83 : HD 100546 and TW Hya model abundances (Kama+, 2016) J/A+A/594/A85 : 2D disk models from CO isotopologues line (Miotello+, 2016) J/ApJ/862/L2 : Detection of HCOOH in TW Hya disk with ALMA (Favre+, 2018) J/A+A/642/L15 : Near-infrared spectra for TW Hya (McLure+, 2020) J/A+A/648/A33 : ALMA continuum images of TW Hya (Macias+, 2021) Byte-by-byte Description of file: fig6.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 9 E9.3 AU Rad [0.1/200] Radius 11- 19 E9.3 AU H [0/100] Height 21- 29 E9.3 K Tg [10/71210]? Gas temperature 31- 39 E9.3 K Td [10.6/188.7]? Dust temperature 41- 49 E9.3 cm-3 nGas [10.2/3.41e+12]? Gas number density; particles/H atoms per cm3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
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