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Testing protostellar disk formation models with ALMA observations | | Daniel Harsono
; Ewine van Dishoeck
; Simon Bruderer
; Zhi-Yun Li
; Jes Jorgensen
; | | Date: |
7 Jan 2015 | | Abstract: | Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion
disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a
rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply
embedded young stellar objects and infer their masses and sizes. Two 3D
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) formation simulations and 2D semi-analytical model
are studied. The dust temperature structure is determined through continuum
radiative transfer RADMC3D modelling. A simple temperature dependent CO
abundance structure is adopted and synthetic spectrally resolved submm
rotational molecular lines up to $J_{
m u} = 10$ are simulated. All models
predict similar compact components in continuum if observed at the spatial
resolutions of 0.5-1$"$ (70-140 AU) typical of the observations to date. A
spatial resolution of $sim$14 AU and high dynamic range ($> 1000$) are
required to differentiate between RSD and pseudo-disk in the continuum. The
peak-position velocity diagrams indicate that the pseudo-disk shows a flatter
velocity profile with radius than an RSD. On larger-scales, the CO isotopolog
single-dish line profiles are similar and are narrower than the observed line
widths of low-$J$ lines, indicating significant turbulence in the large-scale
envelopes. However a forming RSD can provide the observed line widths of
high-$J$ lines. Thus, either RSDs are common or a higher level of turbulence
($b sim 0.8 {
m km s^{-1}}$ ) is required in the inner envelope compared
with the outer part. Multiple spatially and spectrally resolved molecular line
observations are needed. The continuum data give a better estimate on disk
masses whereas the disk sizes can be estimated from the spatially resolved
molecular lines observations. The general observable trends are similar between
the 2D semi-analytical models and 3D MHD RSD simulations. | | Source: | arXiv, 1501.1417 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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