تقرير
Inner walls or vortices? Crescent-shaped asymmetries in ALMA observations of protoplanetary discs
| العنوان: | Inner walls or vortices? Crescent-shaped asymmetries in ALMA observations of protoplanetary discs |
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| المؤلفون: | Ribas, Álvaro, Clarke, Cathie J., Zagaria, Francesco |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | Crescent-shaped asymmetries are common in millimetre observations of protoplanetary discs and are usually attributed to vortices or dust overdensities. However, they often appear on a single side of the major axis and roughly symmetric about the minor axis, suggesting a geometric origin. In this work, we interpret such asymmetries as emission from the exposed inner cavity walls of inclined discs and use them to characterise their vertical extent. Here we focus on the discs around CIDA 9 and RY Tau, first modelling their observations in visibility space with a simple geometric prescription for the walls, and then exploring more detailed radiative transfer models. Accounting for the wall emission yields significantly better residuals than purely axisymmetric models, and we estimate the dust scale height of these systems to be 0.4 au at 37 au for CIDA 9 and 0.2 au at 12 au for RY Tau. Finally, we identify crescent-shaped asymmetries in twelve discs, nine of which have constraints on their orientation - in all cases, the asymmetry appears on the far-side of the disc, lending support to the hypothesis that they are due to their inner rims. Modelling this effect in larger samples of discs will help to build a statistical view of their vertical structure. Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14626 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2406.14626 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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