accretion; accretion discs; planet-disc interactions; protoplanetary; discs; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Astrophysics -; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of; Galaxies
Abstract :
[en] The large crescents imaged by ALMA in transition discs suggest that azimuthal dust trapping concentrates the larger grains, but centimetre-wavelengths continuum observations are required to map the distribution of the largest observable grains. A previous detection at ∼1 cm of an unresolved clump along the outer ring of MWC 758 (Clump 1), and buried inside more extended sub-mm continuum, motivates followup VLA observations. Deep multiconfiguration integrations reveal the morphology of Clump 1 and additional cm-wave components that we characterize via comparison with a deconvolution of recent 342 GHz data (∼1 mm). Clump 1, which concentrates ∼1/3 of the whole disc flux density at ∼1 cm, is resolved as a narrow arc with a deprojected aspect ratio χ > 5.6, and with half the azimuthal width than at 342 GHz. The spectral trends in the morphology of Clump 1 are quantitatively consistent with the Lyra-Lin prescriptions for dust trapping in an anticyclonic vortex, provided with porous grains (f ∼ 0.2 ± 0.2) in a very elongated (χ ∼ 14 ± 3) and cold (T∼ 23± 2 K) vortex. The same prescriptions constrain the turbulence parameter α and the gas surface density Σ<SUB>g</SUB> through log _{10}(α × Σ _g / g cm^{-2} ) ∼ -2.3± 0.4, thus requiring values for Σ<SUB>g</SUB> larger than a factor of a few compared to that reported in the literature from the CO isotopologues, if α ≲ 10<SUP>-3</SUP>. Such physical conditions imply an appreciably optically thick continuum even at cm-wavelengths (τ_{33 GHz}∼ 0.2). A secondary and shallower peak at 342 GHz is about twice fainter relative to Clump 1 at 33 GHz. Clump 2 appears to be less efficient at trapping large grains.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Casassus, Simon; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy, University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
Marino, Sebastián; University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy
Lyra, Wladimir; California State University, Northridge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Baruteau, Clément; CNRS / Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France
Vidal, Matías; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
Wootten, Alwyn; National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Virginia
Pérez, Sebastián; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
Alarcon, Felipe; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
Barraza, Marcelo; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
Cárcamo, Miguel; Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Dong, Ruobing; University of Victoria, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Sierra, Anibal; UNAM, Center for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics
Zhu, Zhaohuan; University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ricci, Luca; California State University, Northridge
Christiaens, Valentin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) ; University of Chile, Department of Astronomy
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