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Rapid Evolution of Volatile CO from the Protostellar Disk Stage to the Protoplanetary Disk Stage

Zhang, Ke ; Schwarz, Kamber R. ; Bergin, Edwin A.

Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2020-03, Vol.891 (1), p.L17 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Austin: The American Astronomical Society

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  • Título:
    Rapid Evolution of Volatile CO from the Protostellar Disk Stage to the Protoplanetary Disk Stage
  • Autor: Zhang, Ke ; Schwarz, Kamber R. ; Bergin, Edwin A.
  • Assuntos: Abundance ; Astrochemistry ; Carbon monoxide ; Circumstellar disks ; Depletion ; Emissions ; Evolution ; Interstellar matter ; Interstellar medium ; Molecular gas ; Planet formation ; Planetary atmospheres ; Planetary composition ; Protoplanetary disk ; Protoplanetary disks ; Protoplanets ; Protostars ; Stellar evolution
  • É parte de: Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2020-03, Vol.891 (1), p.L17
  • Notas: AAS21976
  • Descrição: Recent observations show that the CO gas abundance, relative to H2, in many 1-10 Myr old protoplanetary disks may be heavily depleted by a factor of 10-100 compared to the canonical interstellar medium (ISM) value of 10−4. When and how this depletion happens can significantly affect compositions of planetesimals and atmospheres of giant planets. It is therefore important to constrain whether the depletion occurs already at the earliest protostellar disk stage. Here we present spatially resolved observations of C18O, C17O, and 13C18O J = 2−1 lines in three protostellar disks. We show that the C18O line emits from both the disk and the inner envelope, while C17O and 13C18O lines are consistent with a disk origin. The line ratios indicate that both C18O and C17O lines are optically thick in the disk region, and only the 13C18O line is optically thin. The line profiles of the 13C18O emissions are best reproduced by Keplerian gaseous disks at similar sizes as their mm-continuum emissions, suggesting small radial separations between the gas and mm-sized grains in these disks, in contrast to the large separation commonly seen in protoplanetary disks. Assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 100, we find that the CO gas abundances in these protostellar disks are consistent with the ISM abundance within a factor of 2, nearly one order of magnitude higher than the average value of 1-10 Myr old disks. These results suggest that there is a fast, ∼1 Myr, evolution of the abundance of CO gas from the protostellar disk stage to the protoplanetary disk stage.
  • Editor: Austin: The American Astronomical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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