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A Three-Dimensional View of Turbulence: Constraints on Turbulent Motions in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk using DCO$^+$

Authors :
Ágnes Kóspál
Kevin Flaherty
Philip J. Armitage
Sean M. Andrews
Xue-Ning Bai
Eugene Chiang
David J. Wilner
Chunhua Qi
Sanaea C. Rose
Jacob B. Simon
A. Meredith Hughes
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Gas kinematics are an important part of the planet formation process. Turbulence influences planetesimal growth and migration from the scale of sub-micron dust grains through gas-giant planets. Radio observations of resolved molecular line emission can directly measure this non-thermal motion and, taking advantage of the layered chemical structure of disks, different molecular lines can be combined to map the turbulence throughout the vertical extent of a protoplanetary disk. Here we present ALMA observations of three molecules (DCO$^+$(3-2), C$^{18}$O(2-1) and CO(2-1)) from the disk around HD 163296. We are able to place stringent upper limits ($v_{\rm turb}<br />Comment: Accepted to ApJ

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....2c05b355c66da140d12c2082db21d79e